>From: W B Hacker <wbh@???>
>To: exim users <exim-users@???>
>Subject: Re: [exim] too many concurrent smtp
>Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:51:47 +0800
>
>jean-paul natola wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I guess this is kind of self-explanatory, HOWEVER i would like to verify
>one
> > other thing-
> >
> > here's the error
> > njdmta04.acml.com #4.0.0 X-Postfix; host
> > mail.familycareintl.org[68.167.21.154] refused to talk to me: 421 Too
> > many concurrent SMTP connections; please try again later
> >
> > We had a "consultant" send a newsletter out from from our webhosters
>server-
> > and naturally they added every employee's email address to the "news
>blast"
> > is it safe to assume that this was the cause of the "too many smtp
> > connections"-
> >
> > is there a way to verify this?
> >
> > TIA
> >
>
>Retroactively, perhaps not.
>
>You need to have the server logging set to show connection source and
>count.
>
>Ex (watch out for MUA line-wrap):
>
>2007-03-09 16:21:59 SMTP connection from [193.17.85.216]:3822
>I=[203.194.153.81]:25 (TCP/IP connection count = 2)
>
>If it is being logged, exigrep or plain-old-grep on 'connection count',
>then
>look for the time/date of the peaks, go back in on the time-date and find
>the
>rejections.
>
>Or something like that.
>
>log_selector = +all provides that detail and a lot more, or you can pick
>and
>choose with + and -. Copious specifics in the docs.
i think i found what i was looking for
H=vps.familycareintl.org [207.58.191.13] P=esmtp S=16997
id=E1HPRAM-0000p1-BT@???
2007-03-08 17:57:10 1HPRWB-000808-95 no immediate delivery: more than 10
messages received in one connection
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