From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 6 15:18:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA09116 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 15:18:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from birdland.rhein-neckar.de (root@birdland.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.88.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA09111 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 15:18:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by birdland.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id AAA09420; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 00:14:55 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 00:14:55 +0100 (MET) From: BSD Mailinglisten-User To: Nate Williams cc: Peter Hawkins , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail weirdness In-Reply-To: <199701061634.JAA21269@rocky.mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > > Has anyone any clues what may be going on here? [...] > FWIW, there are some folks running BSDi who see the same problem. I'm > beginning to smell some sort of incompatability in the BSD stack and > Qualcomm's popper, but I personally have users who download megabytes of > email every day w/out a problem, so maybe it's a modem setup problem? We have exactly the same problem. Customers with absolutely stable links (using modems with CSLIP and/or ISDN with PPP) have sometimes problems with popper, especially with large mails. I tried to reproduce the problem using perl to no avail.... Martin | Martin Jangowski E-Mail: maja@birdland.rhein-neckar.de | | Voice: +49 621/53 95 06 Fax: +49 621/53 95 07 | | Snail Mail: Koenigsbacher Str. 16 D-67067 Ludwigshafen Germany | | RNInet e.V. Rhein-Neckar Internet |