[Dovecot] Stupid question: Need to increase some connection limits

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Oct 5 15:39:59 EEST 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 15:25 -0700, Jon Callas wrote:
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> When I switch from one network to another, I sometimes get dovecot  
> rejecting my connections.
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> The error I get in the log is similar to:
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>    Sep 22 15:23:22 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Maximum number
>    of connections from user+IP exceeded: user=<user>, method=METHOD,
>    rip=1.2.3.4, lip=5.6.7.8
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> So the question is what parameter increases that? My five minutes of  
> looking has failed me.

If you didn't figure out yet: mail_max_userip_connections setting.
Future versions will also mention that setting in the log message.

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