Too Many Connections

All,

I'm receiving this message in our reject log regarding just one
sender:

Connection from 198.xxx.xxx.xxx refused: too many connections

Since we can receive email from other addresses just fine, I assume
this is a problem with the sender's email server. Does anyone have
possible thoughts on this that are more detailed than my 'it's their
problem' assumption?

Thanks.

Tracey wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm receiving this message in our reject log regarding just one
> sender:
>
> Connection from 198.xxx.xxx.xxx refused: too many connections
>
> Since we can receive email from other addresses just fine, I assume
> this is a problem with the sender's email server. Does anyone have
> possible thoughts on this that are more detailed than my 'it's their
> problem' assumption?
>
> Thanks.
>
Your 'it's their problem' assumption is 100% correct.

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'It would go against respecting principles and truth if you have to
respect and accept anything just because it is the other side's view.'
- Kim Jung Ill

On Aug 8, 7:53 pm, David McKenzie <dav...@cia.com.au> wrote:
> Tracey wrote:
> > All,
>
> > I'm receiving this message in our reject log regarding just one
> > sender:
>
> > Connection from 198.xxx.xxx.xxx refused: too many connections
>
> > Since we can receive email from other addresses just fine, I assume
> > this is a problem with the sender's email server. Does anyone have
> > possible thoughts on this that are more detailed than my 'it's their
> > problem' assumption?
>
> > Thanks.
>
> Your 'it's their problem' assumption is 100% correct.
>
> --
> DM dav...@cia.com.au
>
> 'It would go against respecting principles and truth if you have to
> respect and accept anything just because it is the other side's view.'
> - Kim Jung Ill

Hi David,

Thanks for this. I had hoped that was the case. I'm running into the
problem again however and my users are getting frustrated. We getting
several of these messages every minute it seems -all from different IP
addresses. I upped my smtp_accept_queue_per_connection number from 10
to 200, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. I'm reading quite a
bit about smtp_accept_max, but don't appear to have that option in my
config file.

Ideally though, I don't really want to just up numbers without knowing
more about it. Is it reasonable to say that the senders who are
getting rejected are on a mailserver from which we receive a lot of
spam? Am I looking at the problem correctly? I'd appreciate any more
advice or insight you can give me here.

Thanks,
Tracey