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Title: POP3 excessive incoming connections
Post by: Bertrand CHERRIER on July 03, 2003, 08:41:49 AM

Here is my problem :

Jul  3 14:38:20 poste xinetd[24757]: Deactivating service pop-3 due to excessive incoming connections.  Restarting in 10 seconds.
Jul  3 14:38:30 poste xinetd[24757]: Activating service pop-3

And here is my question :
How many pop3 connection do you need to get excessive ?

Title: Re: POP3 excessive incoming connections
Post by: Michael Soulier on July 04, 2003, 02:02:08 AM

Bertrand CHERRIER wrote:
>
> Here is my problem :
>
> Jul  3 14:38:20 poste xinetd[24757]: Deactivating service
> pop-3 due to excessive incoming connections.  Restarting in
> 10 seconds.
> Jul  3 14:38:30 poste xinetd[24757]: Activating service pop-3
>
> And here is my question :
> How many pop3 connection do you need to get excessive ?

What version of the server is this?

Mike

Title: Re: POP3 excessive incoming connections
Post by: Bertrand CHERRIER on July 04, 2003, 02:11:25 AM

Michael  Soulier wrote:
> > And here is my question :
> > How many pop3 connection do you need to get excessive ?
>
> What version of the server is this?
>
> Mike

Ooopppss :)
Sorry about that , the version used is SMEServer-5.6-04
Another precision, a lotus notes is using pullmail and getmail on the SME server

Title: Re: POP3 excessive incoming connections
Post by: Michael P. Soulier on July 04, 2003, 06:50:30 AM

Bertrand CHERRIER wrote:
>
> Ooopppss :)
> Sorry about that , the version used is SMEServer-5.6-04
> Another precision, a lotus notes is using pullmail and
> getmail on the SME server

From /etc/xinetd.conf:

defaults
{
        instances               = 60

Looks like 60 to me.

Mike

Title: Re: POP3 excessive incoming connections
Post by: Tom Carroll on October 18, 2003, 10:33:19 AM

Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>
> Bertrand CHERRIER wrote:
> >
> > Ooopppss :)
> > Sorry about that , the version used is SMEServer-5.6-04
> > Another precision, a lotus notes is using pullmail and
> > getmail on the SME server
>
> From /etc/xinetd.conf:
>
> defaults
> {
>         instances               = 60
>
> Looks like 60 to me.
>
> Mike

Nope, not exactly.  I have 11 pop e-mail accounts on my Mitel SME 5.6u4 UDR.  Once I exceeded 10 pop-3 acccounts I began seeing this error too.

I looked at my /etc/xinetd.conf file and the defaults entry is set to 60, but it appears something else is kicking in here.  Maybe something like a DOS or dDOS protection that is built into another config file?

Is there somewhere else the pop-3 connections setting is controlled?

Tom