[Dovecot] mail_max_userip_connections=10

[Tom Clark]

Hi Paul,

It's coming from the same IP address through his ADSL. Hence he gets the
problem with max_userip_connections.

I think I tracked down the problem. He's been using K9 mail which seems to
have a problem where it doesn't release a connection and has 1 connection
per subscribed folder....

Ta,

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Griffith [mailto:paulg at cse.yorku.ca] 
Sent: 19 September 2011 1:30 PM
To: Tom Clark
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] mail_max_userip_connections=10

On 09/19/11 04:27, Tom Clark wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> A couple of questions rather than a problem for once!
> 
> 
> 
> We've got our Dovecot server running smoothly now apart from our MD. 
> He's having problems with mail_max_userip_connections. He has 3
> (Phone/Laptop/Tablet) items that all connect to the server at about 
> the same time. Which means he's frequently running over the
max_userip_connections.
> 
> 
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> 
> 
> Is there anyway of whitelisting an IP so that it can ignore 
> mail_max_userip_connections=10?
> 
> 
> 
> What should we set mail_max_userip_connections too realistically? 10 
> seems a bit low?
> 

Hi Tom,

   The setting mail_max_userip_connections is per IP.

from 20-imap.conf (version 2.0.13, the version we are running)

# Maximum number of IMAP connections allowed for a user from each IP
address.
# NOTE: The username is compared case-sensitively.
#mail_max_userip_connections = 10

I am going to assume he has a different IP for each device, in this case
that would allow up to 30 connections.

You need to  post your 'doveconf -n' output!

Cheers,
Paul