[NTLUG:Discuss] Slow connection to pop3

[Paul Ingendorf]

Definitely the thing to try would be to just add a line in your /etc/hosts file for the windows machine trying to connect to the pop3 server.  If this makes the reply almost instant then you have found your culprit and you may want to think about setting up a dns server on the mail server that will answer authoritative for the reverse dns mapping for your internal ip range.


-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
Of Neil Aggarwal
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 12:17 PM
To: NTLUG
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Slow connection to pop3


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
JAMM Consulting, Inc.    (972) 612-6056, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com
Custom Internet Development    Websites, Ecommerce, Java, databases


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