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smtp-connections verifiedWritten by the Hub

Total connection ceiling

in the configuration this is a linesmtp-connections: 5000

Upper limit on all SMTP connections the engine holds, incoming and outgoing together.

Values

Values
positive integer
Default
5000 · taken from the build
applying
restart required
where it can be set
in the config file · with a startup flag · as an environment variable

In detail

The ceiling both other limits sit under: with 1000 allowed in and 4000 out, the shipped numbers add up exactly to it. Raising any of them without raising the file-descriptor limit of the process buys nothing — the installer sets ulimit -n 80000 for that reason.