Nick Phillips wrote:
>
> Jonathan Pennington wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone else have, or know of, this problem?
> >
> > When I open netscape, then messenger, I have to wait for a long time for
> > the mail window to open. This is up to 1-2 minutes sometimes! During
> > that time, netscape and my computer are locked.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Yep. It tries to look up your mail server on your DNS. That causes ppp
> to dial up, but the first DNS request packet gets lost, and the time
> between retries is quite large. If you bring ppp up with a ping before
> you open netscape, it'll come up much quicker.
I don't think that's the problem, because my (pop) mail server
is on local network with local DNS server... it must be something
else (the problem starts occuring since 4.06, maybe 4.05, well
I can't recall precisely :).
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