POP server error message

[Guest MOB]

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.

[Guest Thee Chicago Wolf]

Re: POP server error message

 

>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.

 

I use Eudora and I've never seen this message. What version and is

there any other POP client you have configured to access your POP

mail?

 

- Thee Chicago Wolf

[Guest Tom [Pepper] Willett]

Re: POP server error message

 

http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/

 

"MOB" <mobrien11@comcast.net> wrote in message

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: 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.

:

:

[Guest Thee Chicago Wolf]

Re: POP server error message

 

>http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/

 

Eudora has been out of support for nearly 2 years.

 

- Thee Chicago Wolf

[Guest Tom [Pepper] Willett]

Re: POP server error message

 

The user forums on that page are active.

 

"Thee Chicago Wolf" <.@.> wrote in message

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: >http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/

:

: Eudora has been out of support for nearly 2 years.

:

: - Thee Chicago Wolf

[Guest VanguardLH]

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.

[Guest MOB]

Re: POP server error message

 

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:28:06 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

>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?

 

Believe me, pure ignorance....

>What happens when you connect Eudora to a *different* e-mail server?

 

I don't know what that means (connecting to a different server). Oh,

wait - it's Comcast. I'm not sure what a "mail session" means; I

don't know what 10 mail sessions or keeping open a mail session

consist of. I'll look them up. Thanks very much for the information.

 

I'm not spamming, bulk mailing, or committing offenses. : )

>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.

[Guest VanguardLH]

Re: POP server error message

 

MOB wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:28:06 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

>>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?

>

> Believe me, pure ignorance....

>

>>What happens when you connect Eudora to a *different* e-mail server?

>

> I don't know what that means (connecting to a different server). Oh,

> wait - it's Comcast. I'm not sure what a "mail session" means; I

> don't know what 10 mail sessions or keeping open a mail session

> consist of. I'll look them up. Thanks very much for the information.

>

> I'm not spamming, bulk mailing, or committing offenses. : )

 

Then it could be your current mail host is just too busy to accept any

more connections. The same happened on the 911 disaster: the phones got

so clogged with folks prattling to each other that those that actually

needed to make critical or emergency calls got some voice recording

telling them the lines were full and to try dialing again later.

 

By connecting to a different e-mail server means using someone else's

e-mail service. You have Eudora defined with an account that has it

point at and use Comcast's mail server. So see what happens when you

create another account in Eudora and have it point at and use someone

else's mail server. There are other free e-mail providers available,

like Gmail, to which you can use POP or IMAP to connect to those mail

servers. If you get to the alternate mail server then the problem isn't

local to your host and instead Comcast's mail server is too busy, under

maintenance, or experiencing problems (which you can only find out by

calling them and really, REALLY prodding them to check on status).