I don't know if it is still in the bug tracking system but I got a report like this once before from a user. The solution was to upgrade to imap 4.5. (Which is in potato but easy to recompile for slink.)
-- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Pontus Lidman wrote: > Hello, > > At my work we have an slink box running imap 4.4-4, and some WinNT > machines with Outlook clients. The Outlook clients connect every minute to > the IMAP server to check for new mail. inetd starts an imapd process for > that. For some reason, the processes never terminate; when I got to work > this morning the server box was almost unusable because of "Too many open > files", and there were hundreds of imapd processes on it. > > Is this a bug in imapd or in Micros~1 Outlook, and what can I do about it? > Any advice would be appreciated. Please Cc: me as I'm not subscribed to > this list. > > Regards, > > Pontus Lidman > > ------------------------------ >
