[Dovecot] per-user limit?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 10:15 +0100, Peter Hessler wrote:
> I am seeing a problem where users are limited to 6 imap logins total.
> One of my users has a bunch of phones and computers, and wants them all
> on at the same time.
> 
> I'm looking through my configuration, and I cannot see a limit on how
> many times a single user can connect.  He is connecting from different
> IPs.
> 
> Any ideas?  My logs show the following error when they attempt to auth
> for a 7th time:
> 
> dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=111.yy.zz.xx, lip=81.209.183.113, TLS

This means that the client simply didn't try to log in. If Dovecot
reaches some kind of a limit, it logs about that. If there isn't
anything else logged, I don't think the problem is in Dovecot itself.

Can you reproduce this yourself by logging in with e.g. telnet?