SMTP connection refused too many connections

I keep getting the above error on my email.
I'm using blue iris to send me emails using my bt account and over the last month I'm am getting more and more SMTP failed to connect, when is look at the logs on blue iris it says connection refused too many active connections.
Can anyone tell me if BT has a limit on the number of active connections to my btinternet.com email?

Hi ChrisBRRS,
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Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
     at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
     at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
     at java.net.Socket.<init>(Unknown Source)
     at java.net.Socket.<init>(Unknown Source)
     at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIDirectSocketFactory.createSocket(Unknown Source)
     at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIMasterSocketFactory.createSocket(Unknown Source)
     ... 7 more
Can anyone help me with this, please??????
kind regards,
Christiaan

Yes, i can ping it from the client.
I have also noticed that when i run my server with the option -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=IP the applications stops automatically after a few minuts...
I'm not using nothing about codebase. I have the stub and skel classes in server and client machines..
I add the complete exception:
Client exception: java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: external_IP; nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: external_IP; nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:567)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(TCPChannel.java:185
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(TCPChannel.java:171)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:101)
at example.hello.Server_Stub.sayHello(Unknown Source)
at example.hello.Client.main(Client.java:55)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:305)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:171)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:158)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:426)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:376)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:291)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:119)
at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIDirectSocketFactory.createSocket(RMIDirect
SocketFactory.java:22)
at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIMasterSocketFactory.createSocket(RMIMaster
SocketFactory.java:128)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:562)
... 5 more

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