Exim, refused: too many connections

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One of our mailserver having problem last week. It’s caused by the massive connections connected into the server sending out newsletter(large database unstoppable loops) from one host.

2006-06-15 08:50:06 Connection from [201.xx.xx.xx] refused: too many connections
2006-06-15 08:50:20 Connection from [201.xx.xx.xx] refused: too many connections
2006-06-15 08:50:24 Connection from [201.xx.xx.xx] refused: too many connections
2006-06-15 08:50:28 Connection from [201.xx.xx.xx] refused: too many connections
2006-06-15 08:50:32 Connection from [201.xx.xx.xx] refused: too many connections

Exim default allow maximum 20 connections from a host. You can increase the connection in the main configuration file by adding in this line;

smtp_accept_max = 50

For more information, visit Exim’s documentation site.