On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 04:55:09PM +0800, |nix ZixinG wrote:
> It was working fine all along when suddenly, my client's can't
> authenticate. They keep having timeout error. I felt strange, so I
> waited, and found that after waiting for 2 minutes, it will actually
> authenticate and get my mail.
>
> Any help will be deeply appreciated
Hmmm. Well, it's been a *long* time since I read the FAQ or LWQ, so I
went back to search. Dan's FAQ doesn't mention your question because
it's not directly a qmail problem. LWQ is in a different format from
when I first read it and, although I thought I remembered this being
addressed by Dave, I don't see it now.
However, it *is* far and away the most Frequently Asked Question on this
list. LWQ provides links to the list archive. Here's the link for the
list archive search engine, for the future.
http://www-archive.ornl.gov:8000/
Remember, according to LWQ, "Most questions about qmail can be answered
by searching the list archives first."
Furthermore, according to the qmail FAQ,
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/solutions.html#education ,
"If all else fails, you could try asking for help on the qmail
mailing list. Your message should give complete answers to the
following three questions:
1. What exactly did you do?
2. What exactly did the computer do?
3. What exactly did you expect the computer to do?"
Part of that "What exactly did you do?" is posting the exact script you
use to start the POP server. Someone might have pointed out your problem
immediately. You didn't really provide us much information. You just
dropped in out of nowhere, said "My clients are getting timeouts; what's
wrong?", and expected us to somehow (magically?) figure out how your
system was configured. If you give us a little more to go on, you're
more likely to get good answers.
For now, read up on tcpserver's options. Either the man page or Dan's
page on cr.yp.to (http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html). There are
two possible reasons for timeouts: 1) DNS lookups and 2) identd lookups.
tcpserver provides options to enable or disable either of those.
Tim
