Is it possible to limit the number of simultaneous (imap) connections that Outlook uses to communicate with servers. As an example, I'm able to limit the number of active connections to 1 or 2 with Thunderbird. I'm not finding the same capability in Outlook though. I'm requesting this in response to the error message that comes from too many simultaneous connections with my Gmail account. By limiting it to 2 on Thunderbird, my account has not had any problems. 
How can I manage this in Outlook? Thanks.
Mail could not be received at this time. The server for account "my account" returned the error "Maximum number of connections from user +IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections)." Your username/password or security settings may be incorrect. Would you like to try re-entering your password ? 

My username and password works correctly and I get this error message every 10 minutes while I am logged into my email account. This has been happening for over 3 months