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 =
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