Date:  Thu, 4 May 2006 08:21:57 -0400
From:  "Brian N. Smith" <brian (at mark) nuonce.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:05011] The ongoing QPOPPER Debate
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <006101c66f75$56e85000$1e64a8c0 (at mark) nuonce.net>
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To all,

I have had this problem to.  Yesterday I made a very small change, and I
"think" it seems to have cleared it up some.  KNOCK on wood, but I haven't
received any Active Monitor emails about CPU Utilization, or any complaints
at all.

I know eventually it will be switched to Dovecot, but if anyone wants to try
my "magical" fix.

Edit: /etc/xinetd.d/pop3

Change: server_args = in.qpopper -s
To: server_args = in.qpopper -s -R

The -R says NOT to do a reverse lookup.  Like I said, remarkably it seems to
have fixed it.  I haven't seen 10-15 POP3 processes like I have been seeing.
It seems to have made the box very happy.  If someone who is having the same
problem can try it, and let me know if I am smoking crack, or does this
actually make a big difference?

The only thing that I noticed to, is that PAM is just sometimes really slow.
Any good how-tos on speeding it up?

Thanks,
Brian