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Date:      Thu, 9 May 1996 19:38:01 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com>
To:        Patrick Ferguson <patrick@chloe.dmv.com>
Cc:        Jason Fesler <jfesler@calweb.com>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Bruce Bauman <boot@mosquito.com>
Subject:   Re: POP timeout
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.960509193657.3492A-100000@gallup.cia-g.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.960509200228.patrick@chloe.dmv.com>

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Well, that's good to know, now how do we fix it?  Switch to another 
popd?  Change something in qpopper?

On Thu, 9 May 1996, Patrick Ferguson wrote:

> On Tue Apr 30 20:01:34 1996 Jason Fesler wrote:
> >>At 08:59 AM 4/30/96 -0400, you wrote:
> >>We are running FreeBSD 2.1 at our small ISP. Customers have occasionally
> >>been complaining about being unable to communicate with our mail server
> >>via POP. If I check our log files, I see messages like the following:
> >
> >One thing to check is the *size* of the mailbox being checked.
> >qpopper's major weak point is with large mailboxes, as every time
> >someone checks their mail, qpopper has to scan the entire mailbox
> >file.
> >
> >Leave it to the local wArEz kiddies to try and trade via email to 
> >prove this particularly weak point in qpopper, by sending each other
> >10-20 megabyte email messages..



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