[Dovecot] Apple Mail and too many open files?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 10:43 +0200, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> > Dovecot once died on me after an upgrade, because the logfile had  
> > filled
> > up the 7Gb partition with millions of these errors:
> >
> > dovecot: Feb 27 03:55:46 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files
> > dovecot: Feb 27 03:55:46 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files
> > dovecot: Feb 27 03:55:46 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files
> 
> I got about 600 MB of them, but it was clearly running out of files.  
> I've fetched the latest beta and recompiled, so it might work better.  
> I did not get the error you had.

The latest beta attempts to handle the "too many files" case and doesn't
anymore fill all your hard disk with those errors in logs.

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