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List:       imap
Subject:    Re: Slow mail retrieval
From:       Mark Crispin <MRC () CAC ! Washington ! EDU>
Date:       2002-03-16 1:00:14
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Your problem does, indeed, seem to be an IDENT problem, not an IMAP
problem.  The UW IMAP toolkit does not use IDENT, but it is possible that
the Internet listener that you are using (most likely xinetd) does.  So,
check the man page for your Internet listener (e.g. "man xinetd") and
you'll find what you need to change in your config files to banish IDENT.

People have argued for years that IDENT was a bad idea; but perhaps your
bad experience (and that of many others) will cause the lesson to sink in.

On a different topic, this mailing list (imap@u.washington.edu) is for
technical discussions of the IMAP protocol and implementation, and not for
software usage questions.  The UW IMAP server that you are using has its
own mailing list (c-client@u.washington.edu, named after the library that
is the central part of the UW IMAP server and many other packages).

Another, catch-all place to ask any sort of IMAP question (protocol or
software) is the comp.mail.imap newsgroup.

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Phil Martinez wrote:
> I am new to the newsgroup so bear with me.  I searched the archives and
> didn't see anything so I hope this hasn't been answered recently.  I am
> running Mandrake 8.1 Linux with a Postfix MTA and imap-2001a-2mdk.  I am
> currently using the ipop3sd daemon for secure popping.  I can get my
> mail, but the problem is..it takes about 30 seconds and the mail file is
> very small....It seems like there is something timing out before the
> connection is completely made.  I was thinking it is an ident issue.
> Here at work, where I am popping from, we don't allow ident packets into
> the network.  If this sounds like a valid theory, can someone tell me
> how to turn off the ident lookup.  If not, can someone suggest something
> different.

-- Mark --

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