[Dovecot] lmtp (xxx at mydomain.yy): Error: user xxx at mydomain.yy: Initialization failed: Namespace '': mbox: mbox requires client_limit=1 for service

Thomas Leuxner tlx at leuxner.net
Sun Jan 2 22:23:46 EET 2011


Am 02.01.2011 um 21:08 schrieb G.Nau:

> What's the syntax of the client_limit and where to place it? Into which
> config file? Inside the global namespace doesn't seems to work (error on
> dovecot start).

Guess you can tweak it here:

$ doveconf -a | grep -A 5 'service.lmtp' 
service lmtp {
  chroot = 
  client_limit = 0
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = lmtp
  extra_groups = 

> -What's the side effect of this setting to my IMAP clients? Are multiple
> imap connections to the same mailbox still possible?

It changes the number of concurrent deliveries allowed - or more precisely prevents any.  'Mbox' calls for for locking issues.

Regards
Thomas
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