dovecot: imap(foo): Warning: Inotify instance limit for user NNN (UID mailuser) exceeded, disabling. Increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances
Issue
- Sometimes the following error occurs?
dovecot: imap(foo): Warning: Inotify instance limit for user NNN (UID mailuser) exceeded, disabling. Increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- dovecot
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