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Hello, I have some doubts about max_mail_process option on dovecot.conf. When I set to 3, only 2 clients can be logged in at the same time. when I set it to 2, only 1 clients can be logged in. Why is the maximum number of concurrent clients is always 1 less than max_mail_process? Is any other process is also counted as mail_process other than ima...

Hello I have this message repeated several times each *seconds* in /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log the max_mail_processes is set to 8192 and I can see an average of 500 imap processes on the machine , I think there is a problem somewhere ... Debian 64 bits , IBM X3650 biproc , 7 Gb RAM , RAID5 disks , 2 ethernet Gb ports bonded. Dovecot 1.1.11 has been compiled from scratch on the machine Thanks for any info.

...g msg: ----8< ---- # /etc/init.d/dovecot restart Stopping Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] Starting Dovecot Imap: Warning: fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 1280). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings [ OK ] ----8< ---- but i changed either login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes to 2048, it raised the same msg. How can i solove this issue? Thanks very much. My dovecot -n output: ----8<---- # dovecot -n #...

...-n yields: # 1.1.14: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: AIX 1 005A928C4C00 listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_processes_count: 12 login_max_processes_count: 774 max_mail_processes: 1280 mail_max_userip_connections: 12 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 200 mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl mbox_dirty_syncs: no auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd The only changes was that m...

...ux-org/dovecot.index.cache: In valid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:02:57 Warning: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration dovecot: Oct 18 15:02:58 Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 384). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count a nd max_mail_processes settings dovecot: Oct 18 15:03:13 Warning: Killed with signal 15 deliver(seriv): Oct 18 15:04:07 Error: file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.community-lists-altlinux-org/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid arg ument deliver(seriv): Oct 18 15:04:23 Error: file_set_siz...

Hi. What does the warning "Inotify instance limit for user exceeded, disabling." mean, and how do I get rid of it? I assume that I have to change a limit somewhere? Regards, Anders.

I'm getting "Maximum number of mail processes exceeded" messages when 512 imap Processes are active. Dovecot reports: Warning: fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 1712). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings But in my /var/service/dovecot/run script I use: #!/bin/sh mkdir /var/core chmod 1777 /var/core echo /var/core/%p > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern ulimit -n unlimited ulimit -c unlimited /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -F So how can I raise the filedescriptor limit above 1024 (linux-2.6.24....

Dovecot version 1.1.11. Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded (see max_mail_processes setting). I can't seem to get rid of these errors. I get batches of these errors about 4 or 5 times a day. I have a cron-job checking for the existence of this error and then I reboot dovecot when I see this error, but what is causing this error ? What I am reading on the...

...ull just the other day and see 1.2.beta1 in the output of hg tags. # /usr/ladmin2/sbin/dovecot -n # 1.2.alpha5: /usr/ladmin2/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 2000 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 4224). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: AIX 3 0001112AD300 syslog_facility: local0 protocols: imap listen: *:2222 ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/ladmin2/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/ladmin2/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: Dovecot ready. login_processes_count: 30 max_mail_pro...

...-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no login_processes_count: 32 login_max_processes_count: 2048 login_max_connections: 512 max_mail_processes: 1024 mail_max_userip_connections: 2048 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir fsync_disable: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/sbin/imap_login_script mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/sbin/imap_login_scri...

...nt; since I'm having a different error, though, I'm posting it here. Compilation succeeds. Starting dovecot from command line results in: Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 640). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings Warning: Last died with error (see error log for more information): Auth process died too early - shutting down Trying to run just dovecot-auth outputs: dovecot-auth: Fatal: MECHANISMS environment is unset Now, if I try to set an environment variable called MECHANISMS (say, export M...

...dovecot, remove the homedir and start dovecot. Is there another way to accomplish this. Thanks, Martijn # 1.2.12: /etc/opt/redknot/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 4096). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: SunOS 5.11 sun4v log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap imaps managesieve ssl_cert_file: /etc/opt/redknot/ssl/secure.redknot.nl.cer ssl_key_file: /etc/opt/redknot/ssl/secure.redknot.nl.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /opt/redknot/var/run/dovecot/login login_exec...

...ows : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # 1.2.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 2304). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: Linux 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5 i686 Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) base_dir: /usr/local/var/run/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/maillog protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run//login login_executable(defau...

...ompletely unresponsive. I had to kill -9 it this morning in order to restart the service. Once possibility I considered was that the dovecot user process limit was reached, but this is set to 1024, and I didn't see any errors or warnings anywhere in the logs. login_max_processes_count = 256 max_mail_processes = 1024 With the above I would think it would have been able to handle it gracefully, but apparently it did not. ulimit -n 2048 is also set on dovecot startup for the fd limit. Any suggestions on what I could tweak to prevent this from happening in the future? dovecot -n output: Note I upgr...

...index as possible. This is important with dbox at least since index files are the only place where the latest flag/keyword changes are. Recent alphas were also modifying process's fd limits. The current behavior is: - If current fd limit is less than login_max_processes_count (imap +pop3) + max_mail_processes, log a warning at startup: "fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 1234). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings" - Since 1024 is a common default limit, I dropped max_mail_processes default to 51...

...elease) (Debian 4.2.3-6) Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Apr 18 23:08:22 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 1456). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian lenny/sid base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(managesieve): *:2000 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/im...

...17 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<test1>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured dovecot -n: Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 768). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4u info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap pop3 listen(default): 127.0.0.1:143 listen(imap): 127.0.0.1:143 listen(pop3): * ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec...

...xists(&ibox->recent_flags, uid)) I did apply the assertion fix that Timo sent out. # 1.1.2: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 3072). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings base_dir: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/privkey.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate: 0 ssl_cipher_list: MEDIUM:!LOW disable_plaint...

...rdb: od passwd passwd-file prefetch static Here's my dovecot -n output: >dovecotd -n # 1.1.20apple0.5: /private/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 306). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: Darwin 10.8.0 i386 hfs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot syslog_facility: local6 protocols: pop3 imap pop3s imaps ssl_ca_file: /etc/certificates/Default.DB14D82BF89A0DDCE123137BC94AEA0C94DDD838.chain.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/certificates/Default.DB14D82BF89A0DDCE123137BC94AEA0C94DDD838.ce...

...ovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ssl_listen: * login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 15 login_max_processes_count: 512 max_mail_processes: 4096 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/Maildir/%u maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes auth default: worker_max_count: 100 passdb: driver: pam args: cache_key=%u dovecot userdb: driver: passwd Any help will be appreciated! -- Regards, Patryk Rzad...