![[RESOLVED] Error: “Connection Drop By IMAP Server”](/data/resource_icons/0/310.jpg?1597832525){kind=icon}
Are you constantly getting error message on webmail “Connection Drop By IMAP Server” ? Then it means your maximum number of client connections has reached on server. If you are getting this error then you have to allot more connections to web mail server. You can easily solve this problem by simply making some changes in dovecot.conf file. Let’s see how we can do that in this article...
1. Login to your dedicated server via SSH.
2. Now you can execute following command to check your server log file for error. By checking error you can easily resolve the issue.
3. Now open dovecot.conf file and increase the client connection limit in this file. To open the file enter following command :
4. Enter in insert mode by typing ‘A’ in Vi editor. Here increase the limit from 100 to 1000 in this line according to your choice.
5. Save it and exit.
6. At last restart the dovecot by entering the following command:
1. Login to your dedicated server via SSH.
2. Now you can execute following command to check your server log file for error. By checking error you can easily resolve the issue.
Code:
# cd /var/log/
# cat maillog* | grep drop –i
Code:
# vi /etc/dovecot.conf
Code:
service imap-login { client_limit = 1000 process_min_avail = 16 user = dovecot }6. At last restart the dovecot by entering the following command:
Code:
# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
