> -----Original Message----- > From: MarkD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 12:02 pm > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: pop3d > > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:19:43AM +1000, Vivian Doherty allegedly wrote: > > I was able to get 45/50 connections using telnet, so I don't > think this is > > the problem. > > Good. It's a process of elimination. So your concurrency does not > appear to be limited by system resources. > > > I tried to put the -l option into the pop3d run script, all > > users starting getting error messages and could not connect to > the server. > > What -l option on what command, where? What exactly does the startup > script look like. > pop3d run script #!/bin/sh service=pop3d . /usr/share/qmail/run-functions hostname="`hostname`" readdefault concurrency concurrencypop3d 40 readdefault checkpass checkpassword checkpassword do_ulimits exec tcpserver -v -R -H -l -c "$concurrency" \ -x /etc/tcpcontrol/pop-3.cdb 0 pop-3 \ qmail-popup "$hostname" \ $checkpass \ qmail-pop3d Maildir/ > > > I am running Redhat7 with qmail and vmailmgr. This only > happens every so > > often, the network slows to a crawl and everybody has problems > connecting to > > At the time that the problem occurs, can you connect to the pop server > with telnet? Can you do this from the pop server and from another > system on the LAN? > Yes, both pop server and from another system on the LAN you can connect, but the connection is slow. > > the mail server receiving time-out errors. Even the internal > network slows > > down. Any help would be appreciated. > > Sounds like you have other issues going on here that aren't related to > qmail. > Yes I was thinking that myself, we are connected to other branches using ISDN and go through a ISP company, whenever there is a problem with their routers we start having problems with the mail server, yesterday we shut down the mail server to see if it made any difference to the network, as soon as the mail server was turned off the network went back to normal. I found that there was a problem with a router in Melbourne (ISP problem) and today everything is working fine again with the mail server and the network. This is driving me nuts. > > Regards. >
