On Sunday 10 November 2013 11:20:33 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 7. November 2013, 11:41:13 schrieb Reinhold Rumberger: > > Am Mittwoch 06.11.2013, 23:24:58 schrieb Rainer Dorsch: > > > Hello, > > > > > > after upgrading from 4.10.5 to 4.11.2, I regularly get from kmail2 this > > > message: > > > > > > The server for account "boko" refused the supplied username and > > > password. > > > Do you want to go to the settings, have another attempt at logging in, > > > or > > > do nothing? > > > > > > Login failed, server replied: A000003 NO Maximum number of connections > > > from > > > user+IP exceeded ( mail_max_userip_connections ) > > > > > > > > > Restarting dovecot on the server side fixes the problem. Does > > > akonadi/kmail > > > have some "connection leaks", i.e. is opening but not properly closing > > > connections? > > > > Shortly after I switched to KMail2, my university account was disabled > > with > > a comment from the admin that my mail client was spamming connections > > (some > > hundreds per second). Since then I don't trust KMail2 with my university > > email anymore, so I don't know whether this still happens. > > Interesting. > > I have seen something similar and am now using Icedove at work due to that: I was tempted to do the same, if the issue becomes too painful. But currently it happens rarely. > Bug 322199 - akonadi_imap spams perdition log when two clients are active > and gets restarted all the time > https://bugs.kde.org/322199 I enabled logging on the server side (dovecot from squeeze). > Related to that: > > Bug 322200 - limit restarts of crashing resources > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322200 > > > Please give feedback to the bug report above. So far devs may the thinking > it just happens for me. I offered to provide information, if solicited to tell what they need. Also I subscribed to the issues. > Note that it may not be actually a crashing resource, maybe just lots of new > connections, would be nice if you can find out whether you akonadi imap > resource gets restarted all the time (changing PID quickly) or its just new > connection attempt as I could prove. Can you provide a string to grep for? > > I am reluctant to try this on our infrastructure again, since it almost ate > our IMAP proxy server by spamming it so badly that log filled up available > disk space. I have no problem here to test somewhat as long as it does not become too painful or lose data... Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch Lärchenstr. 6 D-72135 Dettenhausen 07157-734133 email: rdorsch@web.de jabber: rdorsch@jabber.org GPG Fingerprint: 5E6C 4AF9 363C 97A6 F820 C2E6 8CE0 5F33 07F3 EDC0 Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/
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