On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 10:15 +0100, Peter Hessler wrote: > I am seeing a problem where users are limited to 6 imap logins total. > One of my users has a bunch of phones and computers, and wants them all > on at the same time. > > I'm looking through my configuration, and I cannot see a limit on how > many times a single user can connect. He is connecting from different > IPs. > > Any ideas? My logs show the following error when they attempt to auth > for a 7th time: > > dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=111.yy.zz.xx, > lip=81.209.183.113, TLS
This means that the client simply didn't try to log in. If Dovecot reaches some kind of a limit, it logs about that. If there isn't anything else logged, I don't think the problem is in Dovecot itself. Can you reproduce this yourself by logging in with e.g. telnet?