<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'Calibri'; font-size: 11pt; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Different:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Nov 01 08:44:36 master: Error: service(imap-login): command startup failed, throttling for 8.000 secs</div><div class="">Nov 01 08:44:36 imap-login: Fatal: master: service(imap-login): child 17371 returned error 89 (Fatal failure)</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 1, 2021, at 8:42 AM, Aki Tuomi <<a href="mailto:aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com" class="">aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Do you get exactly same error message with that config or something else?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Aki</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">On 01/11/2021 14:39 Don Feliciano <<a href="mailto:don.feliciano@icloud.com" class="">don.feliciano@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">I just tried that solution, but it doesn't work. Only default_vsz_limit = 0 seems to work.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Nov 1, 2021, at 2:38 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi!<br class=""><br class="">That solution is bit overly broad way to solve this, I would instead recommend<br class=""><br class="">service log {<br class="">vsz_limit = 0<br class="">}<br class=""><br class="">so that only service log is affected.<br class=""><br class="">Aki<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 31/10/2021 20:36 Don Feliciano wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">A kind person who isn’t on the mailing list share the solution to this with me:<br class=""><br class="">default_vsz_limit = 0<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Oct 28, 2021, at 12:12 PM, Don Feliciano wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Same issue in 2.3.17<br class=""><br class="">dovecot-2.3.17.tar.gz:<br class="">./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/ 2.3.17 --libexecdir=/usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.3.17/libexec --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc --localstatedir=/usr<br class="">make install<br class=""><br class="">dovecot-2.3-pigeonhole-0.5.17.tar.gz:<br class="">./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.3.17/lib/dovecot --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.3.17<br class="">make<br class="">make install<br class=""><br class="">sudo /usr/local/opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -F<br class="">Warning: fd limit (ulimit -n) is lower than required under max. load (256 < 1000), because of default_client_limit<br class="">Oct 28 12:08:48 service(log): Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 268435456): Invalid argument<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Oct 27, 2021, at 11:08 AM, Don Feliciano wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">I've been happily running Dovecot on my Mac for many years (installed via Homebrew). After upgrading to Monterey (MacOS 12.01), it no longer starts:<br class=""><br class="">$ sw_vers<br class="">ProductName: macOS<br class="">ProductVersion: 12.0.1<br class="">BuildVersion: 21A559<br class=""><br class="">$ uname -a<br class="">Darwin dfelicia-mac 21.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.1.0: Wed Oct 13 17:33:23 PDT 2021; root:xnu-8019.41.5~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64<br class=""><br class="">$ sudo dovecot -F<br class="">Oct 27 10:11:18 service(log): Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 268435456): Invalid argument<br class=""><br class="">$ mount<br class="">/dev/disk1s2s1 on / (apfs, sealed, local, read-only, journaled)<br class="">devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)<br class="">/dev/disk1s5 on /System/Volumes/VM (apfs, local, noexec, journaled, noatime, nobrowse)<br class="">/dev/disk1s3 on /System/Volumes/Preboot (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse)<br class="">/dev/disk1s6 on /System/Volumes/Update (apfs, local, jour naled, nobrowse)<br class="">/dev/disk1s1 on /System/Volumes/Data (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse)<br class=""><br class="">$ sudo dovecot -n<br class=""># 2.3.16 (7e2e900c1a): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf<br class=""># Pigeonhole version 0.5.16 (09c29328)<br class=""># OS: Darw in 21.1.0 x86_64 apfs<br class=""># Hostname: dfelicia-mac<br class="">default_internal_group = mail<br class="">default_internal_user = _dovecot<br class="">default_login_user = _dovenull<br class="">first_valid_uid = 100<br class="">listen = 127.0.0.1<br class="">log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log<br class="">mail_location = maildir:/usr/local/var/mail/%u<br class="">managesieve_notify_capability = mailto<br class="">managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext<br class="">namespace inbox {<br class="">inbox = yes<br class="">location =<br class="">mailbox Drafts {<br class="">special_use = \Drafts<br class="">}<br class="">mailbox Junk {<br class="">special _use = \Junk<br class="">}<br class="">mailbox Sent {<br class="">special_use = \Sent<br class="">}<br class="">mailbox "Sent Messages" {<br class="">special_use = \Sent<br class="">}<br class="">mailbox Trash {<br class="">special_use = \Trash<br class="">}<br class="">prefix =<br class="">}<br class="">passdb {<br class="">args = login<br class="">driver = pam<br class="">}<br class="">protocols = imap<br class="">service imap-login {<br class="">inet_listener imap {<br class="">address = 127.0.0.1<br class="">port = 143<br class="">}<br class="">inet_listener imaps {<br class="">address = 127.0.0.1<br class="">ssl = no<br class="">}<br class="">}<br class="">ssl = no<br class="">userdb {<br class="">driver = passwd<br class="">}<br class=""><br class="">$ ulimit -Ha<br class="">core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited<br class="">data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited<br class="">file size (blocks, -f) unlimited<br class="">max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited<br class="">max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited<br class="">open files (-n) unlimited<br class="">pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 1<br class="">stack size (kbytes, -s) 65532<br class="">cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited<br class="">max user processes (-u) 2784<br class="">virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>