Martin Preen wrote:
Hello, a few days ago I switched out UW-server installation to dovecot 0.99.14 (Solaris 9). There were a few client issues, but mostly the migration was ok.
You know, if I had a dollar for every time I'd heard that :) Lots of people seem to be leaving UW-server for Dovecot.
I, too, am running 0.99.14 on Solaris 9 (SPARC)... and loving it :)
But I have still some questions/problems:
+) dovecot-auth: ... PAM: pipe() failed: Too many open files I increased the max. number of open files. Is this normal behaviour, that more than 512 open files are needed ?
I've never seen this problem, but I am not using PAM. Even so, no, it doesn't sound normal. Are there any messages in the logs? How many auth tasks are you running?
+) we're using mbox on NFS and index files on local disks. When building the index files for the first time, it takes (of course) a long time for large folders. But we have these users, and this will happen sometimes. Is there a way to improve performance ?
And still I ask myself "Why do people keep using mbox?" :)
Timo has spoken of a specialised Dovecot LDA for the full 1.0 release. One of the features will be for it to update the indexes upon delivery.
The only other option I can think of is to hack up a quick Python script to connect to an account, and select each of its folders. Hmm... perhaps I will.
One user currently gets this error from Pine when accessing a large attachment: MAIL FOLDER "INBOX" CLOSED DUE TO ACCESS ERROR. AFAIK this error is related to some timeout problem. Has anyone seen this (and a solution for it) ?
Is there anything in the Dovecot logs?
-- Curtis Maloney