Try this instead it speeds things up a great deal
-c number of concurrent connections allowed
-D No delay
-H no dns lookups
Also make sure that your pop3 in /etc/services matches what you have in your
tcp server line (i.e. some /etc/services have pop-3)
env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
tcpserver -c 150 -D -H 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup hjs.de \
/home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
-----Original Message-----
From: Tren Blackburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 14:26
To: vpopmail
Subject: RE: Re[2]: slow login thru firewall?
Check the tcpserver docs for the option to turn off DNS lookups. I can't
remember it off of the top of my head.
Tren.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans-Juergen Schwarz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:28 PM
> To: vpopmail
> Subject: Re[2]: slow login thru firewall?
>
>
> Hallo Tren Blackburn,
>
> On Monday, November 19, 2001 you wrote:
>
> > what version of vpopmail are you using? You using tcpserver, inetd or
> > xinetd? What OS? If you're using tcpserver, can you please post your
> > startup line for it?
>
> I´m using version 4.9.4 with tcpserver on a Suse Linux 6.4 machine.
> Here is my startup Script for pop3:
>
> env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
> tcpserver -u -g 0 pop3 \
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup hjs.de \
> /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
>
> Thank you
> Hans-Juergen
>
>
> >> Hello all,
> >> when I start to pull down my mails from my Mailserver thru a Firewall
> >> in my local Network, login takes a long time (around 10 seconds).
> >> Login without the firewall works fine. Does anybody know what the
> >> reason is? The Logs say that port 3 is affected while log into my
> >> mailaccount. But what is vpopmail doing with compression?
> >> Any ideas? Help would really be appreciated
> >> Thank you very much
>
>
