23 Mar
2006
23 Mar
'06
12:41 p.m.
Hello,
today our dovecot imap server died. The following message appeared in the logfile:
dovecot: Mar 23 07:00:58 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files
We have one dovecot instance for pop3 and one for imap, so while the pop3-service was still available, the imap-service was not running any more.
I've seen a lots of users keeping there imap-connections idle for hours, often more than one per mailbox. How can I limit this? Can I limit the maximum time a connection can be open?
Regards Marten