Re: Still trying to figure out delay on smtp/pop3

[nascheme]

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 08:56:51PM -0800, Bill Parker wrote:
>       I am still trying to figure out why smtp/pop3 requests take so long
> to respond or process when users try to send/retrieve mail off of the
> server...

Are you using tcpserver or tcp-env?  I had a similar problem.  It
turned out that these programs try to use ident by default.  In
my case a firewall caused this connection to timeout.  Adding the
-R option fixed it for me.  I used tcpdump to find this.


    Neil