From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 22:47:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pen.homeip.net (72-17-237-24-cable.juneau.ak.net [24.237.17.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55AF37B404 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 22:47:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by pen.homeip.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) id g4F5koR29684; Tue, 14 May 2002 21:46:50 -0800 Message-Id: <200205150546.g4F5koR29684@pen.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: John Andersen Reply-To: jsa@pen.homeip.net To: "fred zhang timogen" , Subject: Re: POP3 mail FREEBSD Gateway Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 21:46:49 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <011501c1fbca$a4e7e130$7d05a8c0@fred> In-Reply-To: <011501c1fbca$a4e7e130$7d05a8c0@fred> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 14 May 2002 08:40 pm, fred zhang timogen wrote: > Hi, > > I am using the freeBSD as a gateway and connect the ineternet by ADSL. > > But why It is very difficult to retrive mail from some mail server by pop3. Difficult as in SLOW? Thats usually caused by one of two things. 1) Dropping ident packets instead of rejecting them (or accepting them). 2) Some pop servers also insist on a resolvable Reverse IP, and some ISPs set up lame reverses. If other OSs on your adsl haveno problems then I would look into reason 1 above. -- _________________________________________________ No I Don't Yahoo! And I'm getting pretty sick of being asked if I do. _________________________________________________ John Andersen / Juneau Alaska To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message