On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 23:12 -0400, A. Khattri wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > The process would hang at at the input of each mail for a short (but
> > very noticable) period while it tries to connect to port
> > 512/comsat. /etc/services states that this port is for new-mail
> > notification (biff).
> >
> > I don't have biff enabled and thus I wonder what/why is it that it's
> > trying to contact it. I'm not even sure if it's a fetchmail issue or
> > it's a sendmail issue.

> The first link might (just maybe) have some useful info:
> http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=fetchmail+port+512+comsat&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

I would try googling but since I don't have I-Net access at work.. it's
kinda hard. 

But thanks. I'll take a look at it when I'm home. If anyone knows it
off-hand right now, please do tell.

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