Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 11:50:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Troy Settle <rewt@i-Plus.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: network mail Message-ID: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970526113441.4140E-100000@cedb> In-Reply-To: <199705250709.DAA15624@radford.i-plus.net>
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On Sun, 25 May 1997, Troy Settle wrote: > From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> > >Could you be more specific about what problem you are seeing? > > qpopper doesn't recognize the imap control file, and proceeds to > remove/deliver it. Use ipop3d > If I run pine from a shell machine, and use imap to read my mail, > all goes well until I then try to read my mail directly from the mail > server, at which time, all the stuff in /var/mail/st is not visible. > (so I gotta telnet back tot he shell box to read the mail I left > laying around). All this is, and the fact that it takes almost 30 > seconds to get imap4 to open a mail box from the shell server to the > mail server (they're connected with about 20 feet of cat5 with a hub > in between). I haven't used pine with imap, much less run into problems with it so I can't offer any suggestions on why imap left the mailbox unreadable. Except for the usual differences in how access is controlled. I.e., some mailers like to use group "mail", some like to use the owner. What are the permissions on your /var/mail/you file before and after an imap session? Also, in my limited testing of Netscape mail using IMAP, I didn't see any huge (30 second) hit. Reverse DNS problem maybe? That's the most common cause of huge lags in network response. > >Deliver mail for shell users to the shell machine? > > Would be nice, but there's only one customer that uses only his > shell. A handfull of other customers may use their shell, or they > might pop their mail to a windows or mac mail reader. I often catch > myself reading mail directly, or sometimes I'll use an imap client, > or other times, I'll use a pop client. It all depends on my mood and > what computer I happen to be sitting at. Then I'd have all the mail clients on the shell machine compiled to use POP or IMAP and skip the NFS mount. Both elm and pine can do it, users don't use /usr/bin/mail (at least none of ours do). Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82
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