[Dovecot] dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

[Timo Sirainen]

On Dec 18, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Mario Antonio wrote:

> JW wrote:You could try:
> /etc/security/limits.conf
> 
> 
> 
> your_dovecot_user soft nofile 524288
> your_dovecot_user hard nofile 524288

I think these are read by PAM when user logs in. Dovecot never uses them. I'm not sure if even setting root's limits here will affect software started by init.d scripts at system startup.