On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 10:06 +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote:
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 16:25 +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote:
I had to increase the max_mail_processes to 8192 to have a functionnal IMAP server with normal clients AND squirrelmail clients
8192 sounds enormous to me , any infos welcome !
How many imap processes have you running typically?
Did you found any explaination to this problem ? Do you think it could be a Linux problem or a Dovecot problem ?
If the problem had to do with max_mail_processes, Dovecot would have logged:
"Maximum number of mail processes exceeded (see max_mail_processes setting)"
Did it? If you can't find that from logs, then either you're not looking at the right logs (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging) or changing the max_mail_processes didn't actually do anything and instead simply restarting Dovecot fixed it (or the original problem just happened to go away for some other reason).