Dovecot experts, We just recently deployed Dovecot 1.0.rc15 on a Redhat 5 system. I have over 1400 users. At first it appeared to work fine. But soon, we had complaints of students that couldn't retrieve their email. I looked in the logs and found this error.

Jan 7 22:27:31 stu dovecot: auth(default): pam(pucklisl,<http://144.89.40.6>144.89.40.6): pipe() failed: Too many open files

We are running Dovecot to authenticate via pam which authenticates ldap.

Below is the output of [root@stu ~]# dovecot -n # /etc/dovecot.conf listen: * ssl_cert_file: /etc/mail/certs/server.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/mail/certs/server.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_size: 512 login_max_processes_count: 32 mail_location: mbox:%h/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /etc/custom-pop3.sh mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

Any solutions for this problem?

Tim Tyler Network Engineer - Beloit College tyler@beloit.edu