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Running Mac and keep getting UNABLE TO RECEIVE MESSAGE IMAP MAY HAVE EXCEEDED It randomly does this and I can't use it. Changing nothing, it seems to work later

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tbird111
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I have a Mac laptop and run Thunderbird daily. It can go weeks without any problems and then suddenly show a message Unable to receive messages IMAP may have exceeded the number of accounts. I try rebooting the computer, changing passwords from a remote computer, etc and it doesn't clear it up. Suddenly for no reason, the next time I try to get email it asks for the password and everything works fine. I do know that just before this error message comes on, the mail seems to be slowing down and there is a delay, it acts like it is overloaded.

I have a Mac laptop and run Thunderbird daily. It can go weeks without any problems and then suddenly show a message Unable to receive messages IMAP may have exceeded the number of accounts. I try rebooting the computer, changing passwords from a remote computer, etc and it doesn't clear it up. Suddenly for no reason, the next time I try to get email it asks for the password and everything works fine. I do know that just before this error message comes on, the mail seems to be slowing down and there is a delay, it acts like it is overloaded.

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Matt
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if you have a mac you probably have other apple products connected to the account. Try turning off some of them. Apple apparently do not allow for more than one device to connect at a time, instead of moderating their efforts they consume all available connection.