[Dovecot] dovecot: imap-login: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections)

[Alessio Cecchi]

Il 04/03/2013 15:43, David Brown ha scritto:
> Hi, has anyone seen this issue before as I have not.
>
> I'm a long time dovecot user and I don't see anything in the config that
> should cause this.
>
> The mail.log gets hit a lot of times with this same log message:
>
> dovecot: imap-login: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded
> (mail_max_userip_connections)
>
> I have noted that it is more evident when I try to mass delete many
> messages.
>
> Any ideas of how to diagnose this issue?

Hi,

is not an issue but a configuration limit for prevent abuse.

You can increase these number with

protocol imap {
mail_max_userip_connections = 20
[...]

or you can see you current limit with "dovecot -a"

Ciao
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