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From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes)
Subject: Re: Some problems and questions with POP3D
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rkohli@richmond.infi.net (rkohli@infi.net) wrote:
: In an attempt to debug why I could not receive e-mail from my pop client
: I get the following error message when I try to telnet to the pop port
: (110) inted[114]: execv /usr/local/etc/pop3d:Permission denied, nowhere
: in the doccumentation is there anything mentioned about this. Any ideas
: what I could do about this???

Set the execute permission on the file /usr/local/etc/pop3d?

	chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/pop3d

(or maybe 611, or even 111 mode).


: Another problem has been the time it takes to establish a connection
: with the FreeBSD box. It takes way to long when ping returns round trips
: of 0 milli seconds. Any suggestions on how to improve the connect speed.

Buy a faster computer?  Pop uses TCP connections, and connection-setup
times are relatively long, especially on slow machines with a slow 
kernel-calling mechanism.  x86 counts as all of these.  ;^)

	Wes Peters