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I'm seeing this message in my /var/log/maillog: May 26 12:35:00 agencymail dovecot: IMAP(info at example.com): Inotify instance limit for user exceeded, disabling. Increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances I rummaged through google, and found : http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2008-May/011132.html which says I need to increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_us...

So I rebooted my mail server, and now dovecot fails to start with: Stopping Dovecot Imap: [FAILED] Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: listen(::, 143) failed: Address already in use [FAILED] [root at agencymail postfix]# dovecot -n # 1.1.8: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.el5 i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga) ext3 ssl_cert_file: /etc/httpd/certs/agencymail_example_com.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/httpd/certs/agencymail.example.com.key.no.password login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/log...

...ildir folder it has info in maildirsize 0S 12744423 10 334 1 483685 1 and when I delete the maildirsize file it recreates. any ideas? thx. Rick # 1.1.8: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.el5 i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga) ext3 ssl_cert_file: /etc/httpd/certs/agencymail_invtitle_com.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/httpd/certs/agencymail.invtitle.com.key.no.password login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_u...