Re: [exim] Outlook and "too many messages in one connection"

Phil Chambers wrote:
> I have a series of odd entries in my log which I cannot explain. I am using
> Exim-4.50 and the user submitting messages used Microsoft Office Outlook, Build
> 11.0.5510.
>
> He appears to have had several messages queued in his Outlook Outbox when he
> started the program (while connected via our dial-up service).
>
> The logs shows his PC sending one message (two recipients) which was processed
> without a problem. Immediately after the log entry for that submission, with
> the same timestamp, there is an entry with his PC's IP address saying "too many
> messages in one connection". 38 seconds later there is another, 10 seconds
> after that there is another and so on with a total of 8 such lines.
>
> He claims to have received no error report from Outlook and his Outbox is
> empty. His Sent Items folder shows 8 sent messages which do not appear in the
> Exim log.
>
> I can find no evidence in the Exim log for all the messages which would be
> needed to get to the "too many messages in one connection" state (controlled by
> the smtp_accept_max_per_connection option).

Are you certain you haven't set that to one?

>
> Any suggestions as to what Outlook could have been doing?

Sounds like it's ignoring an error response exim's giving.
Can you recreate that situation, and snoop the SMTP conversation?

- Jeremy