Milter-greylist

shuttlebox wrote:
 > Nov 24 11:20:04 viola milter-greylist: [ID 653641 mail.error]
 > mkstemp("/var/milter-greylist/greylist.db-XX.caqCI") failed: Too many
 > open files

There's your problen:  "Too many open files".
You need to increase the limit on file descriptors.
(The exact way to do that depends on your OS and shell.)

Most shells have a "ulimit" or "limit" built-in command,
some systems also have /usr/bin/limits (see the manual
pages).  They can be used to lift the soft limit on
file descriptors, among other things.

If you need to increase the hard limit of your OS, well,
that's OS-dependant.  For example, FreeBSD has a sysctl
variable (kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc), and
the limits can be tuned per login-class in /etc/login.conf
(for system daemons like milter-greylist the login class
would be "daemon", unless a different one is created.)

Best regards
   Oliver

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