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How to resolve Exim: "too many messages in one connection" error

Austin Lowery
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Introduction

 

If you are receiving the "too many messages in one connection" error message from Exim when sending a large number of messages through your server use the following procedure to update the configuration.

 

Procedure

 

  1. Login to WHM as the root user
  2. Navigate to: Home »Service Configuration »Exim Configuration Manager
  3. Click on the Advanced Editor tab
  4. Find the "smtp_accept_max" configuration and set it to a value higher than the number of messages that you need to send at once
  5. Find the blue button labeled "Add Additional Configuration Settings" and click it
  6. Add "smtp_accept_max_per_connection" and then set the value to a number higher than the number of messages that you need to send at once
  7. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the blue Save button

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