Question on IMAP Email trigger error

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Hi ,

i notice that my workflow that has an IMAP email trigger keeps getting error on and off.

and looking into the logs. i get this. Is this a concern that i need to be looking into ? i get quite a few in a day. it seems to be happening to a few different hostinger accounts of my clients?

{“level”:“error”,“message”:“Account is temporarily unavailable.”,“metadata”:{“file”:“error-reporter.js”,“function”:“defaultReport”,“timestamp”:“2025-06-03T12:44:09.941Z”}}
{“level”:“info”,“message”:" → Activation of workflow "TOL| Incoming Email Connector" (41Fp33wcnyPNoZXv) did fail with error: "There was a problem activating the workflow: "Account is temporarily unavailable."" | retry in 2 seconds",“metadata”:{“file”:“active-workflow-manage
r.js”,“function”:“retryFunction”,“scopes”:[“workflow-activation”],“timestamp”:“2025-06-03T12:44:09.941Z”,“workflowId”:“41Fp33wcnyPNoZXv”,“workflowName”:“TOL| Incoming Email Connector”}}

any thoughts is appreciated!

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Hi there, from what i know, i dont think this is an n8n problem but more of the provider’s IMAP server where it’s temporarily rejecting connections and this can be caused by multiple reason

  • too many concurrent connections
  • rate limiting from hostinger
  • connection timeouts
  • etc.

and if you read the error message, it’s always retrying in every 2 seconds, which in my opinion might makes it worst

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thanks for your insighs. it makes sense

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then can you kindly give it a like and mark it as the solution? i’d appreciate it a lot, thank you

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