Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:54:53 -0500 (CDT) From: "Daniel C. Fifield" <danf@JADETech.com> To: Art Neilson <art@neilson.ddns.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Shawn Rogers <dmr1@JADETech.com> Subject: Re: QPopper Timeouts! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980616105312.9228G-100000@server1.bisnet.net> In-Reply-To: <3585B61D.57F9@neilson.ddns.org>
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Art, Have you or any one else had any experience with the ipop3d daemon? Was it able to handle large attachments? Dan On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Art Neilson wrote: > Dan, have you tried the ipop3d daemon in the uw_imap4 package ? > It's in the ports collection, /usr/ports/mail I believe. It contains > a pop2, pop3 and imap4 daemon, from University of Washington. > > Daniel C. Fifield wrote: > > > > Dean, > > > > Can you give me anymore information on the DNS lookups, this sounds like > > it maybe related to our problem. Are you talking about unknown hostnames? > > > > If so, can we turn off name resolution in popper so it does not try to > > find it. > > > > Here is a little more information on the problem. It does not appears to > > happen all the time, but it seams to happen on only certain emails, even > > ones as small as 400k > > > > Unfortunatly, I am a public ISP and a number of my customers are > > publishers and marketing firms and they depend on email to send and > > receive large graphic files. > > > > Dan > > > > On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Dean Hollister wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Doug White wrote: > > > > > > > This is normal. popper insists on copying the mailbox file to a private > > > > copy before transferring it, and this takes a while on busy servers. We > > > > have the same problem on our campus mailserver. > > > > > > Also, DNS lookups can cause this. That's what we found. > > > > > > > Yes you can, it's called quotas. :-) > > > > > > And if you're going to put in quotas, give people 5Mb or so at least. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > d. > > > > > > +-------------------------------------------------------+ > > > | Dean Hollister, | dean@odyssey.apana.org.au | > > > | Perth, Western Australia. | 12840184 ICQ | > > > +-------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Daniel C. Fifield Email: danf@JadeTech.com > > JADE Technologies, Inc. Fax: (414) 938-5952 > > (414) 938-5950 > > PGP Public Key: http://www.JadeTech.com/~danf/pgpkey.html > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > -- > __ > / ) _/_ It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. > /--/ __ / Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, > / (_/ (_<__ Instead of theories to suit facts. > -- Sherlock Holmes, "A Scandal in Bohemia" > Arthur W. Neilson III > Bank of Hawaii Tech support > art@neilson.ddns.org > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Daniel C. Fifield Email: danf@JadeTech.com JADE Technologies, Inc. Fax: (414) 938-5952 (414) 938-5950 PGP Public Key: http://www.JadeTech.com/~danf/pgpkey.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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