All of a sudden I am getting these errors on one of my accounts:

imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections=10)

It was working fine last night when I went to bed, and is posting these errors nearly constantly (about one every second) when I checked mail after waking up this morning.

The account is question is my main account and has a lot of mail, but it is not the account with the most mailboxes, that one is working fine.

I looked at the documentation on how to increase this setting, but <http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig> is for 1.x and clicking the 'wiki2" link brings up a mostly blank page with no configuration info at all. It looks like in dovecot 1.x this would go in an protocol imap block, but I don't have one of those in my conf.

doveconf -n

2.2.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

OS: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE i386

auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 89 log_path = /var/log/dovecot mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox NotJunk { auto = subscribe } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql }

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