Kedar Patankar saw fit to inform me that:
> I have seen this behavior with RH6.1. All of a sudden, for seemingly no
> reason, pop3 would stop working. Attempts to telnet to port 110 would
> fail. Inetd keeps running fine, and telnet/ftp works. I am 100% (well
Have you tried running top to see _how_ much memory inetd and pop3 / imap
are occupying?
There is also the factor of a POP lock file (for example when someone's
m/c drops carrier halfway thru downloading a mail). If that is not
deleted, pop3 slows down ...
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Suresh Ramasubramanian | sureshr at staff.juno.com
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