[Dovecot] Imap Timeouts

[Dean Blackburn]

I'm running beta3 (upgraded from beta1) on OS X 10.4.4, and we're 
basically seeing two problems:

1) total imap/dovecot crash after a period of repeated "too many files 
open" errors... Restarting fixes it, but we'll see if increasing the 
open files limit is the answer or not... Never run into this with 
anything before, so I'm not confident;

2) individual user accounts will become inaccessible occasionally when 
multiple clients are hitting the account at once (checking from home and 
work) - deleting all dovecot* files in the maildir fixes this, but... I 
thought Dovecot was supposed to catch this kind of thing and regenerate 
the files by itself? I think this is also the "locking problem" in the 
sense that once this occurs, the directory will fill up with lockfiles 
for each message the user unsuccessfully tries to load from the client side.

-deano

Neil Wilson wrote:
> Chris Wakelin wrote:
>> We had occasional locking problems with 1.0-stable and Outlook, but they
>> appear to be fixed by moving to 1.0-beta3. I migrated the rest of my
>> users to 1.0-beta3 last night, and so far so good ...
>>
>> Chris
>
> I had loads of problems with older Dovecot versions, so that's why 
> I've moved to beta3.
>
> It's been running perfectly for a good few months, until now.
>
> Regards.
>
> Neil
>