From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 5 20:27:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F5E61065673 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 20:27:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from constellation.thenetnow.com (constellation.thenetnow.com [207.112.4.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 045B58FC1E for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 20:27:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hpeel.ody.ca ([216.240.12.2] helo=GRANTLAPTOP) by constellation.thenetnow.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1PESt3-000LcZ-RZ; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:27:50 -0400 Message-ID: <7528EB03F1464070AA402F8C6CCAC42A@GRANTLAPTOP> From: "Grant Peel" To: "Odhiambo Washington" References: <51A327FA9F464DD2B0EFF2903E4DF6FE@GRANTLAPTOP> In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:27:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6002.18197 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18263 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD - POP3 timeouts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:27:55 -0000 Please see below. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Odhiambo Washington" To: "Grant Peel" Cc: Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 2:12 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD - POP3 timeouts > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Grant Peel wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I have serveral servers setup with FreeBSD 8.0. >> >> Each of these servers are running vm-pop3d, which has worked well for >> many >> years now. >> >> Since installing FreeBSD 8.0, the number of timeouts on port 110 have >> skyrocketed on all the servers. >> > > What do es "since installing FreeBSD 8.0" mean here? Why did you install > FreeBSD 8.0?? What were you running before? It means I have been running the same configuration for many years without seeing the issue, and am currently using the same setup with a fresh install of Freebsd 8.0 The same setup ran fine for years on FreeBSD 4.4, 4.10, 5.2.1, 6.1, 6.3, 7.0/ > > > >> Some clients connecting (checking thier email) 200 times a day, may be >> seeing as many as 50 timeouts. >> >> Is there any tuning somewhere I have missed? >> > > > You must also show us the server logs showing the timeouts. Please enable > debug logging on vm-pop3d if possible. Here is a sample from /var/log/maillog. It wont say much, other than the user session timed out: Nov 5 16:16:50 pegasus vm-pop3d[22070]: Connect from 24.114.xxx.xxx Nov 5 16:16:50 pegasus vm-pop3d[22070]: uid 0, gid 6 Nov 5 16:16:51 pegasus vm-pop3d[22070]: cmd: USER info@somedomain.ca Nov 5 16:16:51 pegasus vm-pop3d[22070]: uid 65534, gid 6 Nov 5 16:16:51 pegasus vm-pop3d[22070]: User 'info' of 'somedomain.ca' logged in Nov 5 16:16:51 pegasus vm-pop3d[22070]: cmd: STAT Nov 5 16:21:57 pegasus vm-pop3d[22070]: Session timed out for user: info > > I hope you do realize that in this forum, we mostly handle questions about > FreeBSD and not those related to the daily running of apps (like > vm-pop3d). > so you'll bear with us since some of us run other pop3/imap4 servers > different than vm-pop3d. I have been using these forums for many years now, and I do understand that this is for FreeBSD and not ports like vm-pop3d. I posted it here thinking there may be some strange Ethernet driver issue, or sysctl setting the I might not be aware of, or possibly some problem with inetd that may have popped up in FreeBSD 8.0. FWIW here is the process for inetd\: 80070 ?? Ss 0:07.36 /usr/sbin/inetd -wW -C 60 and here is the config line from inetd.conf: pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/vm-pop3d -D9 -t300 There are lots of Virtual Pop3d accounts spread over many domains on the servers, and I have a number of them myself. I have not seen this issue with any of the accounts I use, ever. I do not beleive thier is a firewall issue here. Just for investigations, I am going to switch form inetd to daemon mode.... -Grant > > > > -- > Best regards, > Odhiambo WASHINGTON, > Nairobi,KE > +254733744121/+254722743223 > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > Damn!! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >