Re: recommended setup for pop3
My initial connections are a little slow in the morning after my Redhat 7.0
box has been sleeping overnight, but otherwise my pop3d runs just fine as
set up by Bruce Guenter's qmail-1.03+patches-16.src.rpm
exec tcpserver -dHRvX -c "$concurrency" \
-x /etc/tcpcontrol/pop-3.cbd 0 pop-3 \
qmail-popup "$hostname" \
$checkpass \
qmail-pop3d Maildir/
I think some clients need the delay -d rather than -D to connect right.
--R stops tcpserver from trying to obtain $TCPREMOTEINFO from the remote host.
hope that fixes it for you :-)
Adam
At 03:11 PM 11/8/00 -0800, James wrote:
>Can someone that's running vpopmail with 600+ users please
>recommend a better way of running the pop3 service? My
>current setup is running it out of tcpserver, and my run
>script(for svscan) is at the end of this message.
>
>The problem that I'm having with this setup, is many many
>people are getting a fairly decent amount of lag when first
>connecting to the server.. at least 20 seconds.. but many
>people are also NOT having any lag at all. I've managed to
>connect to the server with over 200 simultaneous sessions,
>and I still had room for more. Another problem is that some
>of our customers' email clients are timing out during
>authorization (but they do manage to connect). None of this
>can be internet lag, as it's all local network traffic. I've
>noticed at most 8 concurrent pop3 sessions going. I'm
>completely lost as to where to go with this now. I really
>hate the idea of having to go back to NT for email, but this
>may be the only option, as too many people are calling up to
>complain.
>
>In case anyone is interested, the server is FreeBSD
>4.1.1-STABLE. It's services include: smtp, pop3, and http for
>sqwebmail. The box is a Pentium I - 200MMX, with 64MB RAM,
>160MB swap, a 20GB drive, and a Netgear FA310TX NIC.
>
>Here's the contents of the pop3 run script:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 1000000 \
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -D -c 150 -v \
> -u vpopmail -g vchkpw 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
> mail.ourdomain.net /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1
