Better POP daemon?

[Steven W. Orr]

On Wednesday, Dec 24th 2003 at 10:40 -0500, quoth Christopher K. Johnson:

=>Steven W. Orr wrote:
=>
=>>On Wednesday, Dec 24th 2003 at 09:21 -0600, quoth Steven Stern:
=>>
=>>=>I'm popping mail from my FC1 server using the IPOP3 daemon that was already
=>>=>there. Dang, but it is slow.  It takes a long time to just to pick up one
=>>=>short message, mainly due (I think) to process start time.  It gets created
=>>=>and stopped with each POP session.  Does anyone have a suggestion for a better
=>>=>POP3 daemon?
=>>=>
=>>=> -- Steve
=>>
=>>Ummm, I have a suggestion. I had the same problem. No it's nothing to do 
=>>with long process start time. Make sure your identd is running:
=>>
=>>chkconfig --list identd		# To see if it starts at boot.
=>>chkconfig identd on		# to make sure it does
=>>service identd start		# to actually start it now
=>>
=>>Let me know if that doesn't fix it.
=>>
=>>  
=>>
=>Better yet, add this to your iptables file in the *filter (filter table) 
=>section:
=>
=># make quicker connections to servers that try ident lookup
=>-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 113 -i eth+ -j REJECT

Since I don't actually know what identd does, this looks like a good 
opportunity to find out why you're suggest that the protocol be rejected.
Is it a Bad Thing?

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