The correct form for "-l" parameter is "-l 0" not an actual hostname. I added the
following to both my pop3 and smtpd tcpservers: -l 0 -R -H
These switches are the ones most commonly recommended in the FAQ and significantly
sped up pop3 for me.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tonix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 4:08 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Virtual Domains
>
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> I had the same problem. I have a similar situation, and my
> system handles
> DNS by himself.
>
> Although I may swear about the functionality and setup of my
> DNS, I had to
> force the
>
> -l <name.of.my.system>
>
> parameter in the tcpserver line. Having this, tcpserver assume
> <name.of.my.system> to be the name of the answering computer
> and avoid to
> make an extra call to DNS (that's the call that slowered all
> for me, don't
> ask me why).
>
> Hope this help.
>
> Tonino
>
>
> At 10/05/2001 10/05/2001 +1000, you wrote:
> >G'Day All,
> >
> >I have a question about the speed of my qmail server.
> >
> >I look after 2 mail servers, 1 for the company and i help an isp run
> >the other. The company one has 1.03 qmail plain stock standard
> >and when you pop in and smtp in it reacts almost instantly. Works
> >fine.
> >
> >However we are not finding the same thing on the isp mail server.
> >There are about 20 virtual domains and poping in and smtp in is
> >starting to get slower and slower and even sometime time out.
> >Versions are :
> >qmail 1.03
> >vpopmail 3.4.11-1.released
> >qmailadmin 0.26e
> >
> >Each domain has their own ip which reverse resolves to their own
> >mail.domain.com
> >
> >We house all dns entries for their domains and reverses.
> >
> >What we get is that sometimes a customer of the virtual domain
> >will get a timeout while trying to check his email via pop3. We
> >have increased the timeouts on some of the pc's but really was
> >wondering is it because we are scaling more and more virtual
> >domains ? What should i be looking for ? Is it perhaps a known
> >bug and its fixed in a newer version ? PC is running at load
> >average of 0.00 and 98.6% idle. Its a P3 800 or something with
> >256Mb of memory....
> >
> >Thanks in Advance
> >Nathan
>
