There is no point in installing from ports, its' a fresh openbsd -current install and dovecot from the packages.
The error was because I was starting dovecot from the command line (with -F argument), while it started without problems once I tried as a boot service. On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Peter Chiochetti <p...@myzel.net> wrote: > Am 2014-10-28 um 21:05 schrieb soko.tica: > >> >> After many hours I still fail to configure properly dovecot as the LDA >> with >> opensmtpd, for system users only. >> I don't want pop at all, jus lmtp and imap, but still haven't stripped it. >> Here is the info, thanks in advance for your response: >> > > […] > > pipe() failed: Too many open files >> failed: Too many open files >> open(/var/dovecot/login-master-notifya57a2b8821460734) failed: Too >> many open files >> safe_mkstemp(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify) failed: Too many open >> files >> failed: Too many open files >> failed: Too many open files >> failed: Too many open files >> pipe() failed: Too many open files >> failed: Too many open files >> > > […] > > This looks like you hit a system limit. I am left wondering why anything > works at all on the system. > > Your best bet: install from the ports collection, try to run without any > change in configuration. See if it works. Change a little, see if if it > works. Rinse, repeat. > > -- > peter >
