Byron, to be honest this is something that I am not familiar with and have left that stuff up to Hostek. I have passed this thread on to Hostek to maybe provide more details and maybe get some other perspective on this problem.
But from what Hostek have told me, even if the maintain connections is enabled, would the CNAME trick stop that in its tracks? Regards, Andrew Scott WebSite: http://www.andyscott.id.au/ Google+: http://plus.google.com/113032480415921517411 On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Byron Mann <byronos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Imap for Gmail has a 15 connection limit for an account. I'm wondering (as > others) of this is simply something similar for smtp. > > It is quite feasible Gmail is throttling connections from a single ip or > subnet where the hostek server resides. Maybe some previous abuse by the > ip. > > Now that you have the cname workaround in place, did hostek revert back to > the maintain connections enabled? > > I could maybe see the behavior you described, if another customer on the > server is sending a large number of mails, and they have connection caching > disabled and/or are spooling to memory. > > They should be spooling to disk and have maintain connections enabled. > > Byron Mann > Lead Engineer & Architect > HostMySite.com > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356625 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
