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2007 Dec 11
3
Fishing attempt locking up dovecot
I've mentioned this before but only heard from one other person who
has experienced this, but it's becoming a pretty serious issue.
The situation:
A spammer sets a bot on a fishing attempt to gain email addresses,
causing numerous login processes to spawn and suck up all available
resources.
The problem:
Obviously this can act like a dos attack, but the real issue is after
the
2007 Sep 13
1
pipe() error but not linked to kqueue
I have dovecot 1.0.5 installed on an OpenBSD 4.1 box and an OS X
Server 10.4.10 box.
Sure you've all heard it before, because of the pipe error, no more
login processes can be launched, and I have to restart the server.
dovecot: Sep 13 05:50:00 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files
I first thought this was the issue with kqueue, but I've since
recompiled making sure to use