From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 14 10:59:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA08126 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:59:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tag.starnets.ro (tag.starnets.ro [193.226.61.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA08068 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:59:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Received: from ady.warpnet.ro (ady.warpnet.ro [193.230.201.1]) by tag.starnets.ro (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04390 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 20:57:56 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from localhost (ady@localhost) by ady.warpnet.ro (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA09200; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 20:54:48 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 20:54:48 +0300 (EEST) From: Adrian Penisoara To: "Brent J. Nordquist" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Adrian Penisoara Subject: Re: Annoying delay with pine 4 and IMAP In-Reply-To: <199808141553.KAA12866@isis.visi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Brent J. Nordquist wrote: > I have two questions about using pine 4.02/4.02a and IMAP (FreeBSD > 3.0-current as of June 1 1998): > > (1) Do most people use the imapd from the mail/imap-uw port, or the > one that is part of the mail/pine4 port, or something else? I strongly suggest using mail/imap-uw for the POP/IMAP daemons and mail/pine* for the Pine MUAs ! I don't know what people usually do use, but I guess that those using the FreeBSD ports are following this scheme... > > (2) I'm using the imap-uw port (4.2) and pine (4.02 and 4.02a). When I > start pine, I get the "busy spinner" [Opening "INBOX" <-> ] which sits > there for about 10 seconds before it prompts me for login/password. > I also get this delay whenever I open a new folder. > > Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Any theories as to what the > delay could be caused by? It isn't resolution of the IMAP host or port; > "telnet host imap4" returns immediately. > > The pine debugging output shows (I had set the host to 127.0.0.1 to > eliminate that as a cause): > > -------debug output------- > ... > -------debug output------- > > Presumably, the alarm_signal() calls are what wakes the spinner up > to print another character. But even at debug level 9, there isn't > enough information here to tell what it's trying to do while it sleeps. > Clearly it's before it connects to imapd, though. Just a suggestion / wild guess: search & check for locks, stale locks might be a cause (although some sort of error message should pop up) -- /tmp/ might be one target. I'll try to simulate your situation whenever I'll find some spare time -- does someone else have any reports on this ? > > Thanks in advance for any help you can offer! > > -- > Brent J. Nordquist / bjn@visi.com | Windows not found > W: +1 612 905-7806 | (C)heer, (D)ance, (S)ing? > Just my $0.02 Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message