SMTP Send Mail - too many authenticated connection...

Using Outlook on a MAC, and within this last week I have started to get this error when sending mail. I have read all the forum posts and help documents on this issue and ensured that my settings are as described and yet I am still having this problem.
Should I be switching to IMAP to avoid this problem, and if so how do I do that without losing all my SMTP downloaded email?
Thanks for any insight - it is causing me real issues now as I'm job hunting and can't reply to job emails!!!!

Yes same problem for me. In the last three days, or so, I will get the random "too many authenticated connections" message. I have just phoned BT twice this afternoon and had great trouble understanding both Indian guys. One suggested he's fixed it by adjusting things at BT to accept "S Client Mail", whatever that means! That however didn't fix it. The second suggested I needed to reset password (easy option that one), until I pointed out that I am having no trouble with password use on the BT webmail page or through my phone. He then said I'd have to reload Outlook to solve the problem. Yeah right, like I'm gonna loose all my emails, settings and calendar to satisfy his theory of "if it doesn't work then reload it". There is clearly a server problem somewhere and OH, how I would love to speak to someone, (anyone), at BT who actually knows what they are talking about from a network/server angle. Anyone worth their salary in networks could trace my activity online and find out what was going on and why it was failing.
Setting POP3 and all others checked by BT as being correct.

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Too many authenticated connections

I've got a customer with a BT line, sending via mail.btinternet.com. For the last month or two they've complained that they keep getting asked for their password.
I've checked out the customer's system and I can see that it's not a password problem, but the SMTP server is instead coming back with "too many authenticated connections".
I can see that a host of BT customers on here are reporting password problems, I would guess that they are experiencing the same issue, that these are not password problems, but SMTP server issues on BT's new mail systems. The message would suggest that the server is unable to take any more connections so some sort of resource issue at their end.
Of-course unless you're looking under the bonnet of the SMTP connection, you won't be seeing this message, just the popup asking for your password again. It's not a password issue. If you try the connection multiple times, it will go in the end (when you get a connection that is willing to be accepted by the SMTP server.
I've configured the mail client to the letter, as per BT's stated configuration, and like I say, it will work on a percentage of connections. On a good run, you might get 10 out of 10 successes, other times 1 in 3.
Please let me know if anyone is experiencing the same message. The message could perhaps be a red-herring of some kind, perhaps not able to successfully negotiate the authentication / encryption using this particular mail client. The customer is using Mac Mail and there do appear to be quite a few customers referencing Mac's / IOS on this forum, not many Outlook customers complaining.

Hi Bookanengineer,
Many thanks for your post, we have been away and asked some questions around this and the view is that this is unlikely to be an SMTP load issue. There is a limit to the number of authenticated connections we allow per user and the password pop ups being seen are more likely to be due to the customer having too many authenticated connections which could also be due to sessions not being closed correctly
We believe that this is more likely to happen to client users as each time your client connects it opens an authenticated session. If, when you disconnect, the session does not close for whatever reason, the mail server still shows you with a session open. If that happens often you will quickly hit the limit for the number of sessions allowed per customer
We do however need to eliminate other issues so need examples to further investigate, I appreciate that you are speaking on behalf of one of your customers, but if you are able to send in any details to us so we can take a look that would be great. You can send in the details using the "Contact The Mods" link found in my profile.
Thanks
PaddyB
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I can´t send or receive emails theres a message Too many simultaneous connections. (Failure)

What can I do if theres a message that says Too many simultaneous connections. (Failure) an error in IMAP conection
I can´t send or receive any emails

Hi monic,
I'm sorry to hear you are having mail issues on your Mac. I'm a bit unclear exactly which version of OS X you are currently using, but if you continue to have issues sending or receiving emails, you may find the troubleshooting steps outlined in the following article helpful:
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages - Apple Support
Regards,
- Brenden

ORA-30678: too many open connections with UTL_MAIL.send

I'm have just recently started getting the ORA-30678: too many open connections error while calling the UTL_MAIL.send procedure to send emails via a pl/sql package. The call is made within a loop and there can be a significant number of calls made to this procedure. In fact, I received this error over 1400 times within the last three days. This was previously working until I made a change to the processing which now results in a larger number of emails/calls to this procedure. I don't see any documentation on how (or if) I can close the connection with UTL_MAIL.
I'm using Oracle 11g. Any insight would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Teri

Looks like a bug possibly, check out this MOS Note:
Ora-30678: Too Many Open Connections From UTL_MAIL [ID 788442.1]
The bug note says it was fixed in 11.2. Not sure which version of 11 you are running.
Edited by: Centinul on Apr 26, 2010 2:07 PM

UTL_MAIL --- ORA-30678: too many open connections

Hello,
I have a pl/sql package that sends out emails using UTL_MAIL pkg pointing to an Exchange server, an APEX app calls this pkg.. This package used to work fine for months but I recently noticed that some emails are not being sent as expected. The package loops through a set of action items satisfying some conditions and send emails based on that ( this number is expected to grow every day ). I checked the errors log and I found this error:
ORA-30678: too many open connections
I think this means that I have to close the connection everytime I send en email, but UTL_MAIL does NOT have a function or a proc to close connections, right ?
I don't know what causes this error to happen, but I suspect that this started happening right after we re-pointed the UTL_MAIL pkg from a Lotus Notes server to an Exchange server.
I am also seeing this error:
ORA-29279: SMTP permanent error: 501 5.1.3 Invalid address
I know where this error comes from (usually a null email id in the FROM or TO field ), but can this be causing the first error to happen ?
Please advise if you got this error before, is it a bug in oracle 10g as I read in some blog ? or is the second error happening make the Exchange server refuse SMTP connections ???
Thanks,
Sam

Hi Sam,
seems to be a bug in UTL_MAIL if you ask me, as you are right - there is only /send/, no option to close, so I'd expect this to be done automatically.
Anyway, though UTL_MAIL is usable for basic mailing, I prefer using a custom mail implementation based on UTL_SMTP. The most important reason is that most mail servers don't work without authentication. And if you have done this once, you can reuse the function/procedure/package as simple as UTL_MAIL. The good news is, that there are several examples published that provide you with the functionality you have in UTL_MAIL at once - with the difference, that you definetly get your connection closed when you expect it to be closed.
You'll also be able to handle empty addresses. Perhaps this error actually causes UTL_MAIL to "forget" to close the connection, if this exception isn't caught before in order to close an open connection before raising it to the outside.
One example implementation for using UTL_SMTP can be found [url http://www.morganslibrary.com/reference/pkgs/utl_smtp.html]here
-Udo

ORA-30678: too many open connections

Hi,
I executed this procedure..
CREATE OR REPLACE procedure
TRY.e_mail_message
from_name in varchar2,
to_name in varchar2,
subject in varchar2,
message in varchar2
is
l_mailhost VARCHAR2(64);
l_from VARCHAR2(64);
l_to VARCHAR2(64);
crlf VARCHAR2( 2 ):= CHR( 13 ) || CHR( 10 );
l_mail_conn UTL_SMTP.connection;
mesg VARCHAR2( 4000 );
BEGIN
select a.SERVER into l_mailhost from email_setting a where a.SERVER is not null;
select a.USERNAME into l_from from email_setting a where a.SERVER is not null;
l_from := from_name;
--UTL_SMTP.open_data(l_mail_conn);
dbms_output.put_line('email test ');
mesg:= 'Date: ' || TO_CHAR( SYSDATE, 'dd Mon yy hh24:mi:ss' ) || crlf ||
'From: <'||l_from||'>' || crlf ||
'Subject: ' ||subject|| crlf ||
'To: '||to_name || crlf || '' || crlf ;
mesg:=mesg||message;
dbms_output.put_line(mesg);
l_mail_conn := UTL_SMTP.open_connection(l_mailhost, 25);
UTL_SMTP.helo(l_mail_conn, l_mailhost);
UTL_SMTP.mail(l_mail_conn, l_from);
UTL_SMTP.rcpt(l_mail_conn, to_name);
UTL_SMTP.data(l_mail_conn, mesg);
UTL_SMTP.quit(l_mail_conn);
exception
when others then dbms_output.put_line(sqlerrm);
END;
However, email could not be sent to recipient. Below is the error message.
Sending email to subject: Reminder to settle outstanding bil for Invoice No: CA/01062010/555
call email_mssg cmd 3
email test
Date: 23 June 10 15:11:50
From: <>
Subject: Reminder to settle outstanding bil for Invoice No: CA/01062010/555
To: [email protected]
Please Settle Outstanding Bil for your Invoice No: CA/01062010/555. Thank you
ORA-30678: too many open connections
Below is the username I keyed in the email_setting table, with reference to the select username statement from the procedure as above.
username in email_setting => [email protected]
I also tried key in as '[email protected]' but still not working.
Could someone suggest any solution? Thanks..

Mr. Saubhik,
Yes, no data passed for the From: as shown from the dbms output error message shown below:
Sending email to subject: Reminder to settle outstanding bil for Invoice No: CA/01062010/555
call email_mssg cmd 3
email test
Date: 23 June 10 16:15:04
From:
Subject: Reminder to settle outstanding bil for Invoice No: CA/01062010/555
To: [email protected]
Please Settle Outstanding Bil for your Invoice No: CA/01062010/555. Thank you
ORA-29279: SMTP permanent error: 501 5.1.7 Invalid address
I am clueless how to settle this. I don't want to hard code the sender's email address. Please help. Thank you.

Help needed : javamail Too many simultaneous connections

Hello
i'm using javamail to develop a webmail
i've created a service Class , and all things works well , but i have a serious problem when i browse my webmail ( viewing folders: inbox / spam / etc or messages) i get an error saying :
Too many simultaneous connections. (Failure)
i know that the imap server dosen't support more than 10 simultaneous connections.
But i can't say to users using my webmail to do not a lot of actions !!! , and also when i use thunderbird for example it works fine without errors even if i do a lot of actions/connections
How can i solve that problem ?
Thanks
A1 OK [email protected] authenticated (Success)
A2 CAPABILITY
* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1
A2 OK Success
A3 SELECT INBOX
DEBUG: no connections in the pool, creating a new one
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)]
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 616267767]
* 7 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UNSEEN 1]
* OK [UIDNEXT 90]
A3 OK [READ-WRITE] INBOX selected. (Success)
A4 STORE 1 +FLAGS (\Seen)+
+* OK Gimap ready for requests from MyIP 24if2631473eyx.55+
+A0 CAPABILITY+
+* 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))+
+A4 OK Success+
+* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA XLIST CHILDREN XYZZY+
+A0 OK Thats all she wrote! 24if2631473eyx.55+
+A1 LOGIN myemail mypwd+
+A1 OK [email protected] authenticated (Success)+
+A2 CAPABILITY+
+* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1
A2 OK Success
A3 SELECT INBOX
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)]
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 616267767]
* 7 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UNSEEN 1]
* OK [UIDNEXT 90]
A3 OK [READ-WRITE] INBOX selected. (Success)
A4 STORE 1 +FLAGS (\Seen)
* OK Gimap ready for requests from MyIP 23if2388548eya.46
A0 CAPABILITY
* 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
A4 OK Success
* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA XLIST CHILDREN XYZZY
A0 OK Thats all she wrote! 23if2388548eya.46
A1 LOGIN custom.infoma1 mypwd
A1 NO [ALERT] *Too many simultaneous connections. (Failure)*
A2 LOGOUT
* BYE Logout Requested 23if2388548eya.46
A2 OK Quoth the raven, nevermore... 23if2388548eya.46
A4 CLOSE
A4 CLOSE

Thunderbird supports disconnected or offline operation. It can disconnect from the server and then reconnect later
and synchronize its state, so that you never know it was disconnected.
You can do that too, but it's a lot of work.
For webmail, the simplest approach is usually to have only one folder open at a time for each user.
If your IMAP server is limiting you to 10 connections total, across all users, get a new IMAP server.

Too many database connections and configurator logins ?

Hi,
We're having some performance and/or stability problem with Oracle Waveset 8.1.1. patch 2.
I'm not sure what the problems is yet, but two facts got my attention:
I noticed for too many database connections waiting to be closed on the OS, varying between 600 and 1200 :
TCP: IPv4
Local Address Remote Address Swind Send-Q Rwind Recv-Q State
doesburg.ic.uva.nl.33555 hopewell.ic.uva.nl.1539 49640 0 49640 0 TIME_WAIT
doesburg.ic.uva.nl.33556 hopewell.ic.uva.nl.1539 49640 0 49640 0 TIME_WAIT
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I also noticed numerous Configurator logins in the audit log, about 10 per second:
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Timestamp 03/15/2011 04:37:05 PM MET
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Result Success
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Server DOESBURG.IC.UVA.NL
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Interface BPE
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AccountId No Value
Message No Value
Changes No Value
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Event Parameters
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Configurator logins on the BPE interface which we don't use?
Has anyone seen something like this before? What could cause it?
Greetings,
Marijke

I'm still struggling with this problem. Our database administrator did add some tracing, and we see these type of queries:
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SELECT tstamp, id, version, changeType FROM objchange WHERE tstamp > :1 AND type=:2 ORDER BY tstamp
SELECT task.id, task.type, name, :"SYS_B_0", :"SYS_B_1", summary, :"SYS_B_2", :"SYS_B_3", xmlSize, :"SYS_B_4"
SELECT tstamp, id, version, changeType FROM objchange WHERE tstamp > :1 AND type=:2 ORDER BY tstamp
SELECT object.id, object.type, name FROM object WHERE object.type=:"SYS_B_0"
SELECT tstamp, id, version, changeType FROM orgchange WHERE tstamp > :1 AND type=:2 ORDER BY tstamp
SELECT tstamp, id, version, changeType FROM objchange WHERE tstamp > :1 AND type=:2 ORDER BY tstamp
SELECT tstamp, id, version, changeType FROM objchange WHERE tstamp > :1 AND type=:2 ORDER BY tstamp
SELECT tstamp, id, version, changeType FROM objchange WHERE tstamp > :1 AND type=:2 ORDER BY tstamp
SELECT tstamp, id, version, changeType FROM objchange WHERE tstamp > :1 AND type=:2 ORDER BY tstamp
SELECT tstamp, id, version, changeType FROM objchange WHERE tstamp > :1 AND type=:2 ORDER BY tstamp
SELECT tstamp, id, version, changeType FROM rolechange WHERE tstamp > :1 AND type=:2 ORDER BY tstamp
SELECT tstamp, id, version, changeType FROM objchange WHERE tstamp > :1 AND type=:2 ORDER BY tstamp
541 seperate logon sessions by waveset in about 2 minutes.
Has anyone seen this? What could cause it?
Greetings,
Marijke

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SMTP send mail message is giving 'unkown mime version' error(error code 16500). The same mail server works when sending by Netscape mail.Any help greatly appreciated.

Hi,
There seem to be a bug in the OGIC_POP.llb\OGIC_POP_ListMessages.vi.
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Too Many Authentication Required Dialogs

Hi,
I'm using Java 1.6.0_u10, at a client site, behind a Microsoft Proxy (Poxy?) Firewall.
when I try any Applets, or Java Web Start Apps, I get way too many "Authentication Required" Dialogs.
How many is too many? well for me 1, really, but I'm giving up after typing my username/password
- and clicking the "save this password in your password list" - (not sure what that's supposed to do,
if not save me from these dialogs) - for the *+6th+ time*. It seems to be once for every resource accessed, even though
they all come from the same domain - or they should.
In the Java Control Panel, I have tried Manual Proxy Settings, with the same settings from Firefox, System settings and Browser settings.
I'm getting a bit fed up.
Question: Does anyone have trouble free experience of Java Web Start (and plug-in) apps/applets behind an authenticating proxy Firewall?
If so, what's your secret?
After 12 years of Java development, I'm not exactly a newbie. I haven't noticed any of this stuff happening with Flash..and Firefox seems to cope. (although Acrobat reader doesn't manage to update itself, and Netbeans 6.5 is repeated getting me locked out of Windows, but that's another story)
I know the firewall is a nuisance, but if Sun really wants to catch up in the RIA market, it just has to... just work.
Rgds, and thanks for reading, rant over,
Matthew.
Edited by: MatthewHarrison on Dec 1, 2008 5:22 AM

That's really odd.
I'm behind a NTLM authenticating MS Proxy server at work and I don't have an issue with Applets or JNLP.
I'm on Java 1.6.11
There a definitely issues with other software, for instance neither Apple's Safari or Google Chrome (both webkit) will work through the proxy server.
But Java does.

Too Many open connections. UTL_HTTP

I am submiiting The URL for multiple times.
So i am getting the too many open connections error. How to avoid the code.
For your reference i have attached my code.
DECLARE
req   UTL_HTTP.REQ;
resp UTL_HTTP.RESP;
value VARCHAR2(1024);
url   VARCHAR2(4000);
OPT   varchar2(1000);
CURSOR MOB IS SELECT MOB FROM MOBILE_NUMBER;
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DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(I.MOB);
URL:='http://www.meru.co.in/wip/sendsms?username=11|'&'||'password=11|'&'||'to='||I.MOB||'&'||'message=this%20is%20shanmugam';
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resp := UTL_HTTP.GET_RESPONSE(req);
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END LOOP;
UTL_HTTP.END_RESPONSE(resp);
EXCEPTION
WHEN UTL_HTTP.END_OF_BODY THEN
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Move UTL_HTTP.END_RESPONSE(resp); inside the loop. I mean
UTL_HTTP.END_RESPONSE(resp);
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ICloud mail "Too many connections" error

Anyone ever gotten this error when sending to an @me.com account? This is what it looks like when I send email to myself using it. My gut says it's a Boxcar issue but I haven't used that service in months and I've now disconnected anything from it. This is the error I'm seeing back when sending email to my iCloud account:
This report relates to a message you sent with the following header fields:
Message-id: <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:29:50 -0500
From: Brad Franklin <[email protected]>
To: Brad Franklin <[email protected]>
Subject: Test
Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:
Recipient address: [email protected]
Original address: [email protected]
Reason: Rejection greeting returned by server.
Diagnostic code: smtp;554 Transaction failed. Too many connections.
Remote system: dns;push.boxcar.io (TCP|17.172.204.240|45227|173.192.56.11|25) (Transaction failed. Too many connections.)
Original-envelope-id: [email protected]
Reporting-MTA: dns;st11p01mm-asmtp005.mac.com (tcp-daemon)
Arrival-date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:29:54 +0000 (GMT)
Original-recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Final-recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0 (Rejection greeting returned by server.)
Remote-MTA: dns;push.boxcar.io (TCP|17.172.204.240|45227|173.192.56.11|25)
(Transaction failed. Too many connections.)
Diagnostic-code: smtp;554 Transaction failed. Too many connections.

I'm also having this issue with two of my accounts (the main ones I use the most!) I get this message:

Mail not received sent through SMTP Send Mail Task

Hi,
I have a SSIS package which will send mail notifications. This package is deployed on Integration Services Catalogues as Project deployment. This package having a list of notifications regarding the task status.The receiver end got few
notifications but missed of the notifications. This issue is not frequent. Sometimes we are getting all notifications. Sotimes missing some notification. All these using SMTP tasks with same SMTP connection.
I checked the task status in Standard Reports for all Executions. The task status for all these notification tasks are Success.
What are the possible reasons for this?
Thanks and regards,
Muhammed Shakeer
Muhammed Shakeer

Hi Muhammed,
If the issue happens sometime only and all executions was run successfully, then the issue should be caused by the SMTP server. The SMTP server may refuse the connections.
To verify the cause, please:
Check SMTP server log
Enable logging for the SMTP task. Check the log after execution
To understand how to enable Logging, please see:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181205(v=sql.110).aspx
Thanks,
Jinchun Chen

SMTP Error 452 Too many recipients

We are using Exchange 2007 at a school to send email to parents. When we send out email to all parents we get an error back from yahoo: 452 Too many recipients.
We have 34 recipients on the list.
Is there a way to configure Exchange SMTP outbound to break this up so it only sends to say 10 at a time?
Thanks,
Glenn

Here's more info on the problem after looking at the logs a bit more.
When we send to yahoo with 34 recipients, the first recipient is accepted and all the rest are rejected as 'too many recipients'. Exchange then tries again with the remaining users and one more email is accepted. In our case it does this three times and then hits a case where the first
yahoo email address is a bad address. Yahoo comes back with an error for this address and 'too many recipients' for all the others. It then gives up and does not try to send the remaining addresses.
Being able to control the max number of recipients per smtp session would be one fix to this problem as I could set it to something like 10 so that even if one recipient is rejected, the others would not also get rejected as having 'too many recipients'.

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