Different:

Nov 01 08:44:36 master: Error: service(imap-login): command startup failed, throttling for 8.000 secs
Nov 01 08:44:36 imap-login: Fatal: master: service(imap-login): child 17371 returned error 89 (Fatal failure)

On Nov 1, 2021, at 8:42 AM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com> wrote:

Do you get exactly same error message with that config or something else?

Aki

On 01/11/2021 14:39 Don Feliciano <don.feliciano@icloud.com> wrote:


I just tried that solution, but it doesn't work. Only default_vsz_limit = 0 seems to work.

On Nov 1, 2021, at 2:38 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote:

Hi!

That solution is bit overly broad way to solve this, I would instead recommend

service log {
vsz_limit = 0
}

so that only service log is affected.

Aki

On 31/10/2021 20:36 Don Feliciano wrote:



A kind person who isn’t on the mailing list share the solution to this with me:

default_vsz_limit = 0


On Oct 28, 2021, at 12:12 PM, Don Feliciano wrote:

Same issue in 2.3.17

dovecot-2.3.17.tar.gz:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/ 2.3.17 --libexecdir=/usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.3.17/libexec --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc --localstatedir=/usr
make install

dovecot-2.3-pigeonhole-0.5.17.tar.gz:
./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.3.17/lib/dovecot --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.3.17
make
make install

sudo /usr/local/opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -F
Warning: fd limit (ulimit -n) is lower than required under max. load (256 < 1000), because of default_client_limit
Oct 28 12:08:48 service(log): Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 268435456): Invalid argument


On Oct 27, 2021, at 11:08 AM, Don Feliciano wrote:


I've been happily running Dovecot on my Mac for many years (installed via Homebrew). After upgrading to Monterey (MacOS 12.01), it no longer starts:

$ sw_vers
ProductName: macOS
ProductVersion: 12.0.1
BuildVersion: 21A559

$ uname -a
Darwin dfelicia-mac 21.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.1.0: Wed Oct 13 17:33:23 PDT 2021; root:xnu-8019.41.5~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

$ sudo dovecot -F
Oct 27 10:11:18 service(log): Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 268435456): Invalid argument

$ mount
/dev/disk1s2s1 on / (apfs, sealed, local, read-only, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s5 on /System/Volumes/VM (apfs, local, noexec, journaled, noatime, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s3 on /System/Volumes/Preboot (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s6 on /System/Volumes/Update (apfs, local, jour naled, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s1 on /System/Volumes/Data (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse)

$ sudo dovecot -n
# 2.3.16 (7e2e900c1a): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.5.16 (09c29328)
# OS: Darw in 21.1.0 x86_64 apfs
# Hostname: dfelicia-mac
default_internal_group = mail
default_internal_user = _dovecot
default_login_user = _dovenull
first_valid_uid = 100
listen = 127.0.0.1
log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
mail_location = maildir:/usr/local/var/mail/%u
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Drafts {
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Junk {
special _use = \Junk
}
mailbox Sent {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Trash {
special_use = \Trash
}
prefix =
}
passdb {
args = login
driver = pam
}
protocols = imap
service imap-login {
inet_listener imap {
address = 127.0.0.1
port = 143
}
inet_listener imaps {
address = 127.0.0.1
ssl = no
}
}
ssl = no
userdb {
driver = passwd
}

$ ulimit -Ha
core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) unlimited
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 1
stack size (kbytes, -s) 65532
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 2784
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited