Dovecot does not close connections

[Webert de Souza Lima]

This happens to me too. On my case, connections are ESTABILISHED.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 9:09 AM Steffen Kaiser <
skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:

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> On Fri, 14 Oct 2016, Benedikt Carda wrote:
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> > I am running into this error:
> > /Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded
> > (mail_max_userip_connections=10)/
> >
> > The suggested solution in hundreds of support requests on this mailing
> > list and throughout the internet is to increase the number of maximum
> > userip connections. But this is not curing the problem, it is just
> > postponing it to the moment when the new limit is reached.
> >
> > When i type:
> > /doveadm who//
> > /
> >
> > I can see that some accounts have several pids running:
> > /someaccount       10 imap  (25396 25391 25386 25381 25374 7822 7817
> > 5559 5543 5531) (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)/
> >
> > Now when I check these pids with
> > /ps aux/
> >
> > I find out that the oldest pid (5531) has a lifetime of already over 12
> > hours. Anyway I know that the clients that initiated the connections are
> > not connected anymore, so there is no way that there is a valid reason
> > why this connection should still be open.
>
> What's the state of the connection ?
>
>
> - --
> Steffen Kaiser
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