[Dovecot] Apple Mail and too many open files?

[Alan Schmitt]

Hello,

For two days in a row, I've noticed that my dovecot server (hosted on  
a PowerMac running OS X) has stopped working, with a bunch of error  
messages in /var/log/mail.log like:
May 24 07:31:10 top dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

To solve this, I have to kill -9 dovecot and the (many) imap   
processes running.

The only client accessing the server is a machine running Apple Mail.  
I tried to increase the limit in the number of files (I did a  
"launchctl limit maxfiles 1024 unlimited", but the problem still  
happened.

Is this a known problem? Should I allow still more files?

Thanks,

Alan

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