Am 2014-10-28 um 21:05 schrieb soko.tica:

After many hours I still fail to configure properly dovecot as the LDA with opensmtpd, for system users only. I don't want pop at all, jus lmtp and imap, but still haven't stripped it. Here is the info, thanks in advance for your response:

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pipe() failed: Too many open files failed: Too many open files open(/var/dovecot/login-master-notifya57a2b8821460734) failed: Too many open files safe_mkstemp(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify) failed: Too many open files failed: Too many open files failed: Too many open files failed: Too many open files pipe() failed: Too many open files failed: Too many open files

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This looks like you hit a system limit. I am left wondering why anything works at all on the system.

Your best bet: install from the ports collection, try to run without any change in configuration. See if it works. Change a little, see if if it works. Rinse, repeat.

-- peter

Since I've got a question about this offlist, I've noticed that I haven't reported the solution back. The solution was not to start dovecot from the CLI, but as a service. Put it in /etc/rc.conf.local

That's it!

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:05 PM, soko.tica soko.tica@gmail.com wrote:

Hello list,

After many hours I still fail to configure properly dovecot as the LDA with opensmtpd, for system users only.

I don't want pop at all, jus lmtp and imap, but still haven't stripped it.

Here is the info, thanks in advance for your response:

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# doveconf -n # 2.2.14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: OpenBSD 5.6 i386 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 1000 hostname = imap.home.lan imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes lda_original_recipient_header = X-Original-To mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave duplicate mbox_write_locks = fcntl mmap_disable = yes namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = bsdauth } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh postmaster_address = postmaster@mileva.home.lan protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth-worker { user = root } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = _dovenull mode = 0666 user = _dovenull } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 1 } service imap { process_limit = 1024 } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } ssl_cert =

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Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.2.14 starting up for imap, pop3, lmtp, sieve Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(aggregator): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(pop3): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: open(/var/dovecot/login-master-notifydd522320d99e7f4c) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(pop3-login): safe_mkstemp(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(log): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(lmtp): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(ipc): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-urlauth-worker): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-urlauth): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: open(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify95aa9b38117677e4) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-urlauth-login): safe_mkstemp(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: open(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify4d021350494e6f7c) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-login): safe_mkstemp(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(doveadm): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(dns_client): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(director): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(dict): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(config): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(auth-worker): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(anvil): command startup failed, throttling for 2 secs Oct 28 20:47:46 mileva dovecot: master: Warning: Killed with signal 2 (by pid=0 uid=0 code=kill) Oct 28 20:47:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: open(/var/dovecot/.temp.mileva.home.lan.17422.055a8b6881266714) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: file_dotlock_open(/var/dovecot/instances) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(ssl-params): command startup failed, throttling for 2 secs

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