Hi Timo, On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 14:42 +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 15:30 +0200, Harald Strack wrote: > > > Accordingly, mail_max_userip_connections limits the number of > > connections from an IP. To deal with a scenario, when 400 Users behind a > > NAT-gateway come from the same IP (the gateway), we have to set > > mail_max_userip_connections = 400, right? > > No, wrong. It's a user+ip combination. Each different user behind the > same IP can use up to 10 connections with > mail_max_userip_connections=10.
Thanks a lot for your explanation! However, now I am at the beginning again. > > BTW. What Dovecot version? If this isn't working as expected, maybe > dovecot -n output could show something /usr/local > We do not use the most recent version... but was there a bug with this parameter? # 1.2.8: /usr/local/dovecot-1.2.8/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4u base_dir: /var/run/dovecot-1.2.8 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/cert.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/key.pem verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot-1.2.8/login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot-1.2.8/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_processes_count: 8 login_max_processes_count: 8192 max_mail_processes: 16084 mail_max_userip_connections: 1000 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/dovecot-home:LAYOUT=maildir++:INBOX=/var/mail/% u:INDEX=%h/dovecot-indexes mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_plugins: listescape imap_client_workarounds: netscape-eoh delay-newmail outlook-idle namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: debug: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd best regards Harry