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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..