On 16.10.2006, at 21.09, Timothy Meader wrote:
Hello, I mentioned back with version RC8 that dovecot was having an
issue with the first login working, but all subsequent attempts
failing with the error message: "Error: Maximum number of mail
processes exceeded" in the dovecot log file. .. Now, the max mail processes were already set at 1024 (and I'm the
only person using this server while testing), but just for the heck
of it, I tried bumping the number up to 4096 and giving it another
shot. No such luck. You can login once, but any subsequent attempts
come back with the error I mentioned.
So even if you log out it gives that error every time?
I can't really see any good reason why that would happen, so I'm
guessing there must be some memory corruption happening somewhere
which is somehow causing this to happen.
-I'm running this on Solaris 9, not a Linux box
I'm also running Dovecot in Solaris 9, works fine.
-Dovecot is not running in daemon mode, it's running through xinetd
I tried this, but it still worked with me.. Anyway could you test if
it works in the daemon mode?
It's a bit difficult to try to guess what might be wrong in here and
how it could be fixed, without actually being able to debug it myself..