Tom: I was curious if your login issues with your mailserver had resolved itself as mine did the following day? I have 2 windoze that pop of my RH 6.2 sendmail 8.11.6-3 server and are using Outlook and Outlook Express. They were taking over one minute to pop and a time out would occur unless you upped the time allowed for a pop with I think was normally preset at 1 minute. Every issue on my problems, (ftp, telnet, Samba, ipop) all spontaneously cleared up by about 10 PM that evening according to my viewing /var/log/maillog. It was definitely not a DNS issue with me as I was poping with a IP entry in Outlook and Outlook express. I am betting it is a windoze issue but not sure as I have nothing to confirm it.
Thanks, Eddie Strohmier -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tom Bentley Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: pop3 and imap suddenly very slow Help! My formerly functioning (beautifully) mail server is being *extremely* slow of a sudden, taking over a minute between connect and authorization. This is RH 7.2 with sendmail-8.11.6-3 and imap-2000c-15. The clients are MS Outlook Express -- these I can extend the timeout to 2 minutes, at which point it works -- and MS Outlook 2000 -- which I can extend timeout for receiving, but times out trying to send. Netscape has same problems. Mail arrives at the server from outside with no problem, and goes straight into /var/spool/mail/username. I've tried re-installing the imap.rpm. I have tried removing the "log_on" lines in /etc/xinetd.d/ipop3. I have tried putting entries for each client in the /etc/hosts file. I've changed Timeout.ident to 1s in /etc/sendmail.cf. Have stopped and started sendmail uncounted times. Have cleared everything out of /var/spool/mqueue. I have < 100 clients who use the server. top reports 98% idle cpu, and 359meg mem free. df reports plenty of free space on all mounts. DNS appears to work fine (nslookup responds instantly) What could have gone wrong (suddenly--like overnight)? ----- Tom Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] 802-872-5525 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
