I am running cyrus-imapd-1.6.19 along with postfix under Red Hat Linux 6.2.

Most of the time it works flawlessly, but occasionally a delivery dies with
a log entry like the following:   Sep 27 15:00:56 atenas deliver[977]:
checkdelivered: error opening delivered database:
/var/imap/deliverdb/deliver-a.db: Resource temporarily unavailable

This only occurs when a mail is being sent to multiple local users.  The
mail is actually successfully delivered.  A web search revealed that several
sites had experienced "Resource temporarily unavailable" errors associated
with a failure to fork, and were able to fix them by increasing the allowed
number of user processes.  But my error says nothing about a failure to
fork, and I have not set any limit on the number of user processes.

Can someone suggest what might be going on and how to fix it?


Anderson Ferreira
Analista de Suporte

APPI Informática LTDA.
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