Connection difficulties

[Thomas Rokamp]

Hi!   I'm using Qmail with vpopmail as pop3-server, but most of the time when clients connect to the server, it takes like forever before they are allowed to check for mail. Both external and internal. Internally I thought I had solved it, by putting my local hosts into the /etc/hosts file, but it doesn't seem to work that well. It still takes too long time to connect. Most of the times the connection gets a timeout...   Any suggestions?   (and yes, I think I have been through the faq 3 times... no luck)   Thanks in advance!   Thomas Rokamp