[Dovecot] Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded (see max_mail_processes setting)

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Feb 5 18:38:47 EET 2009


On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 11:36 -0500, Stewart Dean wrote:
> Question: Do you have to have a radically greater setting for maildir 
> than for mbox?  I would think...
> What sort of values are people using with both formats?  Sounds like a 
> nasty thing that could bite one in the $%# come migration from mbox to 
> maildir

No, there's pretty much no difference in fd usage between mbox and
maildir. The main problem is the Dovecot master process, since it uses
1-2 fds per child process.
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