Hi, I should have included this in the message, extract from the /var/log/maillog file
Mar 4 15:29:44 mail ipop3d[2908]: Command stream end of file while reading line user=philvw host=[172.16.136.129] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Enrico Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:56 PM Subject: URGENT ipop3d problem > Hi, I have a problem with a mail server running RH6.2. Occassionaly, the > collection and sending of mail from M$-Outlook express clients slows down to > a crawl, and when I look at the process table, I see many ipop3d services > running. > > At first, I thought this was related to DNS problems, but all the DNS > entries resolve correctly. Having said this, when running top, I see the > size for the "named" daemon is 11344 and the RSS 10M, while the %cpu jumps > from 4% to 99%, and eventually settles in the 70% to 99% region. > > I have double checked the DNS configs, and cannot see any errors there. The > version of bind on this machine is 8.2.3. > Also, the entries for pop in the inetd.conf files are set to: > pop-2 stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop2d > pop-3 stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d > > Any assistance with this problem would be highly appreciated. > > Regards > Enrico Payne > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list