From owner-freebsd-isp Fri May 10 08:06:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA24746 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 10 May 1996 08:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.calweb.com (mail.calweb.com [165.90.138.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA24741 for ; Fri, 10 May 1996 08:06:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from devnull.calweb.com (devnull.calweb.com [165.90.138.92]) by mail.calweb.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA05508; Fri, 10 May 1996 08:01:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960510150634.006f8844@jpop.calweb.com> X-Sender: jfesler@jpop.calweb.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 08:06:34 -0700 To: Stephen Fisher , Patrick Ferguson From: Jason Fesler Subject: Re: POP timeout Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Bruce Bauman Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 07:38 PM 5/9/96 -0600, Stephen Fisher wrote: > >Well, that's good to know, now how do we fix it? Switch to another >popd? Change something in qpopper? Changing the Eudora timeout settings to be more lenient *can* help, but it's still one of those no-win situations. I'm presently developing a non-Berkeley mail system compatibile popmail box. It would require popclient as a frontend for the unix folks to use, as the storage system would be similiar to a news system (index file, plus one file per message.. *fast* response, but just as ugly as a news system would be). May not be the brightest way to do it, but I can open a 20 meg mailbox in just a second or so :-) Note that I am not ready to release it. It's still a rough project, and I'm not ready in the least bit to support it in it's current state. It's presently going through alpha testing with a few of the staff here. I also have not yet addressed things like mail forwarding and remote administration by the user [the goal is to have the mail machine not to use NFS at all, but to be an autonomous system - it won't have access to ~user/.forward files ..] -- Jason Fesler jfesler@calweb.com Admin, CalWeb Internet Services jfroot@calweb.com I like my Usenet over ice, please. http://www.gigo.com Disclaimer: My /dev/null can beat your /dev/null any day.