[BlueOnyx:12157] Re: Dovecot Error: socketpair() failed: Too many openfiles

[David Thacker]

> Usually its a email attack see what:
> tail -f /var/log/maillog
> shows and
> cat /var/log/secure | grep dovecot
> shows.

Thank you David and Ken for the clues. It was in fact a brute force email 
attack. I had not checked /var/log/secure and now that I have I can see 
which IPs to block out.

Thanks!

David Thacker