On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:26:26AM -0400, William Mahler wrote: > Greetings. > I have a Red Hat 6.2 Mail server. The pop service is shutting > it self down. The message says "pop-3/Tcpp server failing > ( looping or being flooded) service terminated for 10 minutes. > Now as most of you can imagine... My phone rings off the hook > when this happens... > > I cannot find anything anywhere that tells me why? Can anyone help?
This isn't really your pop3 server but inetd (which controls several ports including the pop3 one). To prevent flooding, it automatically shuts itself down for 10 minutes if it registers more than 40 connections per minute. To go around this limit, edit /etc/inetd.conf and change the pop3 line from: pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d to: pop-3 stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d where 400 is the allowed number of connections per minute. Emmanuel PS: please wrap your lines at 76 chars. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
