A worker opens a connection, sends, and forgets to close it. Nothing breaks for a week, then the provider starts refusing new connections and every send fails at once. Connections are the scarce resource Providers cap concurrent connections per account and per IP, often at a low number.

Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/volanea/your-smtp-connection-pool-is-probably-leaking-39h8)

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