[MlMt] Connection error

[Brett Terpstra]

It cleared up this morning, just took hours longer than it has in the 
past, plus I haven't seen that message for quite a while. I'll chalk it 
up to a Gmail issue.

Thanks,
Brett



On 20 Jan 2015, at 1:17, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 20 Jan 2015, at 7:56, David Green wrote:
>
>> 2. It says "too many simultaneous connections" -- any other mail 
>> programs running against your account?
>
> Here I can add that the limit is 
> [15](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/97150?hl=en) for Gmail. 
> MailMate, by default, uses at most 3.
>
> But there has been problems in the past where Gmail counts more 
> connections than actually used by MailMate. This happens if MailMate 
> is unable to properly close existing connections before opening new 
> ones. A bad network connection could be part of this.
>
> I don't know exactly how Google enforces the restriction on the number 
> of connections, but maybe it's a good idea to close MailMate for half 
> an hour (or more) to make sure its count goes back to 0 (depending on 
> the number of devices/clients you have). Also consider the possibility 
> of other clients/scripts using Gmail connections.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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