basic configuratio error

[Peter Chiochetti]

Am 2014-10-28 um 21:05 schrieb soko.tica:
>
> After many hours I still fail to configure properly dovecot as the LDA with
> opensmtpd, for system users only.
> I don't want pop at all, jus lmtp and imap, but still haven't stripped it.
> Here is the info, thanks in advance for your response:

[…]

> pipe() failed: Too many open files
> failed: Too many open files
> open(/var/dovecot/login-master-notifya57a2b8821460734) failed: Too
> many open files
> safe_mkstemp(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify) failed: Too many open
> files
> failed: Too many open files
> failed: Too many open files
> failed: Too many open files
> pipe() failed: Too many open files
> failed: Too many open files

[…]

This looks like you hit a system limit. I am left wondering why anything 
works at all on the system.

Your best bet: install from the ports collection, try to run without any 
change in configuration. See if it works. Change a little, see if if it 
works. Rinse, repeat.

-- 
peter