[NTLUG:Discuss] Slow connection to pop3

[Neil Aggarwal]

Hello:

I just set up a Linux box Running RedHat 7.3 to act as a mail server.
When I try to download my email from Outlook on my Windows box,
it take a long time to connect and start downloading my email.
Everything works, but it just sits for a while first.

Reading some articles on the web, I think it is a timeout of
either reverse DNS or identd, since the machine I am checking
from uses an internal IP address that wont resolve for
reverse dns and it is a windows box that does not run identd.

I tried following some instructions I found that told me to edit
the /etc/xinetd.conf file and /etc/xinetd.d/ipop3 files to remove
items from the log_on_success lines, but that did not
help.

I check my firewall, it is not a problem since I tried diabling 
it as well.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
	Neil.

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Neil Aggarwal
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