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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