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Subject: Re: Mailbox "Jamming"
To: jeff@ring.zenox.com (Jeff B. Bolton)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 10:00:19 +0000 ()
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> 
> We're running FreeBSD 2.0.5R with popper here, a growing number of dialup 
> users are complaining that their mail boxes are getting "stuck".  The 
> client starts to retrieve messages (Eudora Light is the primary client), 
> but will hang and eventually time out while retrieving the first 
> message.  I heard a rumour that a new version of popper was supposed to 
> monitor and force a fix for this on the server side.....Does anyone have 
> any information/advice on this??????
> 
> Cheers
>       Jeff
> 

Just our experience : we run 2.05R with popper out-of-box very succefully. T
he problem with Eudora is usualy not FreeBSD's fault : users usually set their 
RWIN, MTS, and MSS too high, such as RWIN 4096, MSS 1024 which is good for
Eithernet, but not for dial-up. Try to lower down those value to , say,
MTS 1006, RWIN 848, MSS 212 to get a reliable connection.

Hope this helps.

Yen-Wei Liu