[Dovecot] Re: dovecot died

[Marten Lehmann]

Hello,

> You could look at inreasing the file limits, on debian its 
> in /etc/security/limits.conf, increase the default 'nofile' from 1024 to say, 
> 20000 or something. 

no, thats the wrong way. This would help for now but it is just a 
workaround and sooner or later even these limits might be exceeded. So 
dovecot definitely needs max_connections_per_user or 
max_connections_per_ip option.

Regards
Marten