Hi There, If your mailer does remote sync (eg netscrape) which involved going into a large number of IMAP folders saying "Anthing new?" and exiting if the answer is no, then inetd sees this as looping and issues: inetd[572]: imap/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated It then bounces all further connections to port 143. Can anything be done to alleviate this. This is either a documentation problem or a mismatch between the 3 components netscape, inetd & imapd. The are all doing what they are supposed to do, but the overall function of syncing mail across a number of frequently un-updated mail folders fails. Cheers Andy M
This is a feature, not a bug. Add a maximum rate in /etc/inetd.conf like imap stream tcp nowait.<MAX> root /usr/sbin/tcpd imapd where <MAX> is the number of permitted spawns per scond (default per man page is 40)
Oops ... didn't spot this in the man pages .. mea culpa. <pathetic excuse> The description of the optional .max parameter was tucked away as the last sentence in a paragraph mostly about UDP packet management. Maybe a para break in the man pages ?? </pathetic excuse>