Subject: Help: connect to imapd is slow

From: "John R. Violette" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 15:21:33 -0400 (EDT)

When I set my inbox to be on a remote IMAP server, it takes
about 30 seconds to get prompted for my password. This seemed kind
of long so I tried it with mtest which is the c-client test 
program. It still took 30 seconds. Then I tried a telnet to port
143 and that is immediate. Is this delay normal when you first 
start up pine. 

I have pine 3.91 on HP-UX 9.01 series 715. The imapd is running 
on hpux 9.01 also on a 730. Any help would be appreciated as I
could not find the answer in the FAQ or anywhere else.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 13:38:17 -0700 (PDT)

By default, Pine and mtest first try to open a pre-authenticated rimap
connection to the server.  It sounds like rsh is timing out, then you get
the port 143 connection.  To skip rsh and go straight to port 143, specify
":143" after the host name, e.g. {imapserver:143}INBOX

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On Mon, 24 Jul 1995, John R. Violette wrote:

> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 15:21:33 -0400 (EDT)
> From: John R. Violette <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Help: connect to imapd is slow
>

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From: "John R. Violette" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 10:26:41 -0400 (EDT)

Yes, this was exactly the case. We don't use rsh because of security.
It wasn't documented that you could use the port number in the specification
for a remote folder or that it would take longer if you weren't using rsh.
Specifying the port made the password prompt come up immediately.
Thanks alot; this is much more bearable.