Can't offer any help other than to note that this sounds like the really old
problem where you had to login to the server and kill any "popper" process that
was hanging around.
Say it ain't so... :)
Pierre
Christopher Kolar wrote:
>
> Hello. I am running a 7.1 box and connecting to it from my network over an
> internal interface (192.168.1.1). I have noticed that many times my pop3
> sessions will seem to connect but will not authenticate or download
> mail. I telnetted into port 110 directly and it seems to hang after
> sending it PASS xxxxx. I tried getting to the box using the public IP
> address but no luck there either. II have noticed that if I -SIGHUP the
> inetd process I am able to get normal pop sessions again, but within 24
> hours the problem returns.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
> --chris
