My vpopmail server is very slow to connect right now. I have customers calling the office & bitching & I can see it when I try to check my mail. Unfortunately, I'm clueless as to how to troubleshoot it, much less fix it. Using ssh to connect to the box works instantly. Telnetting to port 110 from my box at home shows where the delay is: ----- yabox# telnet athena.interdyne.net 110 Trying 64.124.170.170... Connected to athena.interdyne.net. Escape character is '^]'. user [EMAIL PROTECTED] #It sits there for ~60 seconds, then proceeds normally. pass ******** +OK list +OK . quit +OK Connection closed by foreign host. ----- My log tells me nothing; lots of messages went through for local (virtual) domains and for remote (secondary MX) domains, some messages did not go through for remote domains due to transient failures, but nothing to indicate why authentication should take so long. Top/ps showed between 1 & 10 instances of tcpserver -H -R 0 110... running while the problem was going on. I'm stumped here. This has happened twice before, but both other times the logs told me that a message was rejected for a secondary domain due to size restrictions. Even assuming that that was the problem today, I don't know what to do about it, since the databytes control file doesn't do anything until a message has been written to disk. Can anyone point me to better troubleshooting methods or an explanation for what's happening? Thanks, -Kit
