Seth Hanford wrote:
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> Stefan Beke wrote:
>   
>> This kind of message started to fill my log probably month ago:
>>
>> Mar 12 07:20:08 mail dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
>>
>> I'm using dovecot on small home mail server 10 users. I thought this is
>> maybe because I'm using maildir, IMAP
>> and my daemon did have default openfiles.
>>     
>
> What version of OpenBSD are you using? What version of dovecot? From
> ports/packages, or did you roll your own?
>
> I had a similar problem back in December of last year, and a commit was
> made to OpenBSD 4.0 -STABLE ports tree that fixed my problems ever
> since. I'm using dovecot-1.0.rc15
>
>   

had this same problem before upgrading to the 1.0rc15 package. the 
earlier rc's are no good for fds.

cheers,
jake

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> - Seth
>
> PS - Thanks again, Brad! Works like a champ now.