dovecot: Nov 08 04:04:23 Error: IMAP(user): open() failed with file mailstore/user/Maildir/.Alerts/dovecot.index.log.2: Too many open files dovecot: Nov 08 04:04:23 Error: IMAP(user): open(mailstore/user/Maildir/.Alerts/tmp/1162976663.P4853Q1817.server) failed: Too many open files dovecot: Nov 08 04:04:23 Error: IMAP(user): open() failed with file mailstore/user/Maildir/dovecot.index.tmp: Too many open files
Seeing this with both 1.0beta9 and 1.0rc12
This occured when a user was not using the client, however the client(Thunderbird) filtering mechanism was active as their client is left on 24x7.
Do we really need to increase individual user maxfiles to >1024 ? Dovecot is set to 31768 so it is definately the user process here.
Anything I can tweak in dovecot.conf to prevent this?
Thanks!