hi, when sending a message to my mail server at work, the message gets into the mailbox, and i can see it there with pine. when sending out (using pine) the message gets to its desination. but when i try to login to a mailbox from a windows station (with outlok, outlook express etc..) i get a timeout and nothing comes down. if i tell outlook express to wait for another minuete or so, the messages do come down. and the question is : where do i tell the server (RH 6.1, 2.2.15 , sendmail, ipop3d) to answer after a shorter time ? this started hapenning without me changing anything in the server or firewall configuration. can anyone give me a quick idea ? this is really stalling all the work here. thank you. -- -------------------------------- _|_|_ Best Regard's , ( ) * Amir Tal, /v\ / System Administrator /( )X Intercomp Ltd. (m_m) fax : 09-9526170 | | ICQ : 15748705 | (_)_ __ Office : 09-9526993. | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | | | | | | |_| |> < |_)_|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\ visit us at www.legacy2web.com. --------------------------------