Better POP daemon?
Steven Stern
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Thu Dec 25 02:15:15 UTC 2003
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 18:28:25 -0600, "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
wrote:
>At 17:21 12/24/2003, you wrote:
>>Changing just the daemon while not fixing the real resons why another
>>one does not work as expected is not wise in my eyes. But in your other
>>mailing you are right, that DROPing ident requests is a dumb thing.
>
>Steve asked two questions, as I read his post: what might be causing his
>problems, and is there a better POP server daemon. I attempted to answer
>both, independently of each other.
>
>>Anyway, it's not the case in here that the identd make the problems.
>>It's DNS lookups and maybe not resoving reverse lookups. It's a common
>>issue with other net applications as ssh, telnet or ftp logins too.
>
>Steve's case may be either, both, or something else entirely. DNS (both
>forward and reverse) timeouts and ident requests are, however, the two most
>common causes of this kind of problem; as you noted.
>
>
>--
>Rodolfo J. Paiz
>rpaiz at simpaticus.com
>http://www.simpaticus.com
The ident thing has definitely speeded things up, but I'm going to play with
dovecot on Friday.
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