Issue with one user only, exceeding connections

[Jeremy Schaeffer]

Thanks for the command, that is very useful.

That user is actually me, I know why where are so many open. I have my 
computer, and two tablets, and since I am using server side filtering 
(procmail) I have to set watch on all the folders that are filtered to 
or I miss a email. But I am doing the same for about 4 other users 
accounts I also monitor, so I am not sure why it's just my username that 
is doing that. I am going to shut down all the clients one at a time and 
see what client is opening all those connections.

Once I close the client, I assume the connection should also close and 
the count go down, correct?

I turned off both tablets and the connection count for my username still 
is at 60, since I am writing this email with my computer client I will 
send it and close my client and see what happens. Thanks! - Jeremy

On 6/9/2022 11:29, Richard wrote:
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>> Date: Thursday, June 09, 2022 11:07:38 -0500
>> From: Jeremy Schaeffer <kb9mfd at phonesplus.biz>
>>
>> On 6/9/2022 10:59, Richard wrote:
>>>> Date: Thursday, June 09, 2022 10:46:25 -0500
>>>> From: Jeremy Schaeffer <kb9mfd at phonesplus.biz>
>>>>
>>>> That was the first thing I tried, I lowered the cache connections
>>>> in Thunderbird. Actually the max connections was 50, not 500, but
>>>> I could see why as I do have a lot of folders, but what is odd is
>>>> I have other mailboxes that have even more folders, but it's only
>>>> one mailbox that is trowing the error.
>>>>
>>>> "# ps -axww | grep imap" does not give me the same results -
>>>>
>>>> .....
>>>>
>>>> 19897 ?        S      0:00 dovecot/imap
>>>> 19900 ?        S      0:02 dovecot/imap
>>>> 19901 ?        S      0:00 dovecot/imap
>>>> 19902 ?        S      0:00 dovecot/imap
>>>> .....
>>>>
>>>> I wish it did give me the mailbox, is there a option to get it to
>>>> give me that information?
>>> Try "auxw" on your "ps". I.e., add in the "u" which will get you
>>> the user detail in the first column, otherwise you just get the
>>> process id.
>>>
>>>
>> Thank you! That worked, I piped the output to a file, grep the
>> username and sure enough there are 60 lines. So I guess going over
>> 50 was a possibility.
>>
>> Learn something new every day. I set the maximum to 100 so I should
>> not have any errors on that anymore.
>>
>   
> Rather than simply upping the limit I think a reasonable question to
> ask is why/how they are managing to do that. That's a lot of open
> folders.
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> By the way, the single command:
>   
>   ps auxw | grep imap | cut -d" " -f1 | sort | uniq -c
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> will get you a nice list with the users and their connection counts.
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