Nicolas Haller:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a little problem with Postfix. I have a Postfix server acting as
> fallback_relay. This box have a big queue (between 10000 and 100000
> mails). The box is under FreeBSD and all is ok except this message I see
> in syslog:
> 
> postfix/qmgr[52291]: fatal: socket: Too many open files

That is a kernel error.

> I try to change some sysctl values like kern.maxfiles,
> kern.maxfilesperproc, kern.ipc.maxsockets and kern.ipc.somaxconn but I
> still receive too many open file message.

See: http://www.postfix.org/TUNING_README.html#file_limit

> Someone know what is wrong?

You need to adjust the PER PROCESS open file limits.

        Wietse

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