On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Kai Bleek wrote:

> referring to this rather old thread, I hope to get an answer ;-)

> So here my question:
> what exactly is the timeout value after which qpopper cleans up the
> .<user>.pop zombies and where can I change it?

By default 600 seconds. This can be altered at compile time and by using
the -Q flag at startup.

> Besides, changing some smaller value, can this have some negative
> effect on longer POP-sessions?

Only for large messages on really slow links. Usually the clients will
abort well before qpopper's timeouts kick in.

AB

Reply via email to