[BlueOnyx:14675] Re: After YUM Update

[lewisg]

I hope you guys don't consider this a thread hijack but some of the 
problems I'm experiencing seem related to the YUM update of Feb 12.

On a bunch of our client's PCs (XP and W7) we have Thunderbird installed 
(v2-v24). Many of these are configured in Thunderbird to use STARTTLS 
for POP. These machines quit receiving email on Feb 14th with the status 
line message in Thunderbird saying "Connecting to servername" staying up 
forever. If we change Thunderbird Server Settings, Security Settings, 
Connection security from STARTTLS to None email pours in.

/var/log/maillog shows this:
dovecot: pop3-login: socketpair() failed: Too many open files
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: TLS initialization failed. (no auth 
attempts): rip=xx.xx.59.66, lip=xx.xx.6.130

So I guess the question is should we tell our clients to change 
Thunderbird Security Settings to None so they can get email OR is there 
a better option?