[Dovecot] thunderbird crashed-mail_max_userip

[Paul Cartwright]

thunderbird just crashed, and I've never seen this before. Any idea what
happened?
this was in the dovecot log:

2010-12-02 13:06:40 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from
user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
2010-12-02 13:06:40 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from
user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
2010-12-02 13:06:40 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from
user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
2010-12-02 13:06:40 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from
user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
2010-12-02 13:06:41 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from
user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
2010-12-02 13:06:41 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from
user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
2010-12-02 13:06:41 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from
user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
2010-12-02 13:06:41 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from
user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
2010-12-02 13:06:42 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from
user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
2010-12-02 13:06:42 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from
user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured


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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800