[Dovecot] 1.1rc1: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Jan van den Berg <jan.vandenberg at isp.solcon.nl>:
> Before you start Dovecot type this in you shell:
> 
> ulimit -n 65000
> 
> I don't know how the use of the 'unlimited' word works: maybe this is
> only 1024?

According to
http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~brecht/servers/openfiles.html
the contents of /etc/security/limits.conf are applied.
And if there's nothing set there, 1024 is used.

But I'll retry with an explicit limit.

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