Re: POP server error message
MOB wrote:
> POP server said: ERR xxxxx has too many connections (71) on xxxxxx.
>
> I'm getting this message today repeatedly in my Eudora email program.
>
> Windows XP Pro.
> I'm using one desktop and one laptop.
And you thought the error numbers (where you X'ed them out) would
somehow divulge YOUR private info how?
What happens when you connect Eudora to a *different* e-mail server?
Maybe the one you are using is just too busy to accept any more inbound
connection requests. No server can handle an infinite number of
concurrent connections. To ensure the current connections get a decent
response time, the server will limit the number of concurrent
connections. Talk with your UNIDENTIFIED e-mail provider regarding
their mail server getting overloaded and prod them to up their
resources. They may also be performing unannounced maintenance so some
of their mail hosts may not be available which means those that are left
must handle the full load but they get too busy. It also possible your
unidentified e-mail provider enforces an anti-spam or anti-abuse quota
as to how many mail sessions are allowed per minute. Comcast, for
example, limits you to 10 mail sessions per minute (well, that was their
anti-abuse quota for personal accounts a few years ago). If you
repeatedly attempt to establish more than that many mail sessions in the
given timeframe then they'll refuse to accept anymore until that
timeframe has elapsed. This is what often gets mailmerge users into
trouble when they blast out hundreds of their spam, er, "newsletters"
because MailMerge has no means for regulating how fast that bulk mail
gets delivered. Another anti-spam quota is how many mails you can send
per minute so trying to keep open a mail session but send to multiple
recipients beyond the quota results in a rejection.
You should not be polling for e-mails at less than 5-minute intervals.
Set it to 10 minutes. There are reasons for doing so having to do with
you stepping atop an existing mail session when it's time for the next
mail poll which is beside a possible anti-spam or anti-abuse quota
enforced by your e-mail provider. Limit how many mail sessions you
establish per minute if you send bulk mail (and use a bulk mailer that
can actually regulate how many and how often to send a chunk of bulk
mails which MailMerge can't do). Some e-mail providers limit you to how
many e-mails you can send per day. Gmail has a 100 count daily limit if
you use a local e-mail client (i.e., via POP) but 500 per day if you use
their webmail interface. I believe Hotmail has a limit of 100 mails per
day. I don't know what your e-mail provider has for a max-per-day sent
e-mail count and they may not tell you (they don't want spammers do know
what are their anti-spam quotas for fear those spammers will figure out
how to work around the quotas rather than getting the door slammed in
their face).
Read
http://www.netprofits360.com/Articles/18926.php. If you're bulk
mailing, there are lots of other articles to find on how to send bulk
(marketing) e-mails. I'm not supporting bulk mails but I also can't
prevent you from Googling for articles by spammers and marketers (they
are different animals) on how to properly pace your output. You might
not think of our opt-in church newsletter as spam or bulk mail but your
e-mail provider might. They don't care about what you are bulk mailing.
They restrict based on behavior, not on content (the recipient's mail
host does the content checking with their spam filter).
If you aren't commiting offenses based on the Terms of Service with your
e-mail provider, you should have no qualm about asking them why their
mail server is rejecting your connections.
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