On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Jose Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> 1. if i set on inetd exim running under user exim with params -bs all
> error messages are sent to exim and pop3 clients
> have no notification about errors. In this configuration sending or
> receiving mail over pop3 is very quick.
>
> 2. if i set inetd exim running under user exim with params -bs all pop
> clients receive the correct error notification, but
> sending mail is very slowly and receiving is quick.
(a) Sorry, what is the difference between how you set up 1 and 2? I
can't see any difference in what you have written.
(b) Have you remembered to make the exim binary setuid=root?
> 3. if i set exim runing under rc.local with params -bd -q1h the system
> responds as in point 2.
I'm not at all sure what you mean by "fast" on pop3, because Exim has
nothing to do with the POP protocol, which is a protocol for the user
agent to use when *reading* mail.
I feel there is something I am not understanding here...
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