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> I'm experiencing a curious issue with qmail-popup/pop3d.
>
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> When I try to retrieve mail via POP3 on the PUBLIC interface, all
> goes well.
>
> When I try to retrieve mail via POP3 on the PRIVATE interface, it works,
> but where the public side takes about two seconds to complete an empty
> transaction, the private one takes as much as 60 seconds to authenticate
> (Eudora hangs on "Logging in to server," which is its way of saying
> login/password). If Eudora doesn't get sick of waiting it EVENTUALLY
> works, but slowly.
> Thank you.
It's a DNS matter. The delay u're experimenting is due to the reverse DNS
checking - certainly the server cannot get the intranet clients' name using
theyr IP and your clients must wait for the DNS timeout.
Wagner
