On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Shannon Doyle wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I have an interesting problem with my pop3 server. I am runnig ipop3d and
> connecting to it via a windows machine.
>
> Whenever my windows machine logs into the linux box to retrieve mail, I get
> an unusually long delay in authenticating sso much so that the windows
> client reports the inactivity. I tell it to wait and it then proceeds to
> authenticate and pull the mail down, quickly.
>
> Sending is also a problem, I am using postfix as the MTA and that too seems
> to delay the processing of the mail.
>
> In the mail logs I get the error:
>
> Command stream end of file while reading line user=blah blah
>
> Any ideas would be helpful
Is the delay approximately 2 minutes by any chance?
Apart from Jeff's suggestion of setting up bind (aka named, aka DNS) for a
small office you can get away with adding an entry in /etc/hosts. At the
very least that'll tell you if you're on the right track. The entry
doesen't have to have any hostname in particular, it just has to exist.
For example I often do this:-
perl -e 'for($i=1;$i<256;$i++){printf
"192.168.0.%d\tpc-%03d.localnet",$i,$i); }' >>/etc/hosts
Err that's meant to be one single line above.
Then I just edit out the few duplicates from existing /etc/hosts entries
by hand. I also do similar for the DNS stuff but that involves forward and
reverse lookup tables.
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