ON Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:58:31PM -0600, Duncan Shannon wrote: > i have a qmail server... ever thing seems to be running fine. > > i cant for some reason, connect to the local inhouse server at 10.0.0.251 > > its for brand new client, and i havent nailed what thier existing setup > is . Someone else set the server up... they have an internal qmail server, > and connectt to it via pop from > on the network. they had a power outage, box down... box came up, > internet back up, qmail is REALLY slow... sometimes clients (mostly > netscape) can connect... usually not. really stumped here. A few things to check: Check the state of the qmail server with ps, vmstat, netstat. Check that tcpserver is running. Check the timeout settings in $QMAIL_DIR/control. Check that either your internal addresses resolve or that DNS lookups are disabled in the tcpserver init script. -- Michael