changing the number of allowed connections

Hi there,

I have a web server that is set up to email me error notices of PHP errors via a script that makes an SMTP connection to localhost. This works fine, but the other day I inadvertently wrote a script with an error in a for loop that got thrown over and over, generating many email reports in a very short time. Some of them got through to my remote email, but the ones that happened in the later iterations of the loop never came. Checking the root email account, I found many delivery failure notices:

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From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@mysite.com>
To: postmaster@mail.mysite.com
Subject: Postmaster notify: see transcript for details
Parts/Attachments:
   1     Shown     11 lines  Text
   2     Shown    405 bytes  Message, "Delivery Status"
   3     Shown    2.9 KB     Message, "Returned mail: see transcript for details"
   3.1   Shown     12 lines  Text
   3.2   Shown    405 bytes  Message, "Delivery Status"
   3.3   Shown      1 KB     Message, "mysite.com Error Report"
   3.3.1 Shown     10 lines  Text
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The original message was received at Sun, 14 May 2006 22:54:55 -0400
from localhost
with id k4F2st6C015139

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
me@myothersite.com
    (reason: 550 Too many SMTP connections from xx.xx.xx.xx!) <----my IP (not localhost or 127.0.01, if that matters)
    (expanded from: <errors@mysite.com>)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

    [ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ]

Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.mysite.com
Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost.localdomain
Arrival-Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 22:54:55 -0400

Final-Recipient: RFC822; errors@mysite.com
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; me@myothersite.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 Too many SMTP connections from xx.xx.xx.xx!    <----my IP (not localhost or 127.0.01, if that matters)
Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 22:54:55 -0400

[ Part 3.3: "Included Message" ]

<original error report email>
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is there a way to increase the number of concurrent SMTP connections a particular user can make from localhost so that my error messages will get through? Especially as site traffic grows, I want to be sure I dont miss any. In addition, well need to send news letters out to members using the same base email software, so I need to be sure they don't get lost.

Thanks in advance for the help!