I recently have a user reported me the following:
I recently installed a Netgear RP114 Router, to provide multiple computers
access to the internet via a single cable modem from ATT. Since then, my
Eudora email program encounters some sort of 30 second delay when
attempting to retrieve email from any of my awit.com accounts. The
"status" display of the process shows "Logging into POP server" for upwards
of 30 seconds, before continuing. Once it actually starts downloading
email, it proceeds as quickly as it always has.
None of the other five email POPs I deal with have this problem. Do you
know of anything that I can try to improve this performance?
I first asked him where these five POP boxes are hosted, and then I telneted
to port 110 of these five places, and got the following info:
popd.accesscom.com QPOP (version 2.3)
pop.vitac.com DPOP Version 2.4a
venus.he.net QPOP (version 3.1.2)
holzheimers.com POP3 holzheimers.com v4.47 server
cihost.com POP3 localhost v4.47 server
I then asked him to use telnet to port 110 to our POP server, and he
still got the delay. So, I am quite sure it's most likely caused by
the Netgear RP114, although I don't see any reason why this is so.
The following is from the init script of our POP server. The -R is
used to turn off identd, a typical cause of delay. But he got the
delay with the Eudora client and with the command line telnet client
regardless.
tcpserver \
-v -R -x $RULESDIR/pop3.cdb \
0 pop3 qmail-popup $HOSTNAME \
$checkpassword qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 \
| $setuidgid qmaill $tai64n 2>&1 \
| $setuidgid qmaill $tai64nlocal \
| $setuidgid qmaill $multilog s${LOGSIZE} n${LOGNUM} \
/var/log/pop3d &
I am quite puzzled at this moment. We don't have a Netgear RP114 router
handy, so I wonder whether anyone has experienced this and has insight
into why this symptom is there. Any hints/tips are appreciated.
We use qmail 1.03.
Regards,
Chin Fang
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
