Subject: Hung processes on ipop3 ?

From: [email-masked] (Kevin Savetz)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 18:46:03 -0800

Greetings.

I've been using the PINE package ipop3/ipop2 daemons on Solaris for many
months without trouble. Recently, many of my users have started to complain
that they can't get their mail: the pop session starts, but hangs before
actually sending the mail. This seems to happen sporadically. My mail
server isn't overloaded, but it is in general working harder than it used
to.

I can't find any pop3 errors in any log files (is there one for this?) but
looking for pop3 processes reveals a lot of zombie processes. (The zombies
aren't a new thing, but with the new mail hanging, they have begun to
concern me.)

The daemon is "POP3 3.3(18) w/IMAP2 client". Is there a newer version?

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Kevin Savetz
Northcoast Internet

$ ps -ef | grep pop
    root 20853   120 24 13:47:28 ?          0:00 ipop3d
  saltys 25509   120 58   Sep 29 ?          0:01 ipop3d
  saltys 22702   120 47   Sep 29 ?          0:00 ipop3d
    root  5799   120 45   Sep 30 ?          0:00 ipop3d
jmacevoy 18339   120 53 23:22:40 ?          0:01 ipop3d
 aburrow  3763   120 80   Sep 30 ?          0:01 ipop3d
jmacevoy 18381   120 51   Sep 30 ?          0:01 ipop3d
 rdobson 21937   120 53   Sep 29 ?          0:01 ipop3d
   wkirk 26533   120 61 15:34:20 ?          0:01 ipop3d
 support  6082  4491  8 18:33:02 pts/15     0:00 grep pop
  saltys 27226   120 48   Sep 29 ?          0:00 ipop3d
  saltys 28725   120 49   Sep 29 ?          0:00 ipop3d
  saltys  1882   120 53   Sep 29 ?          0:01 ipop3d
 edlydon  8480   120 69   Sep 30 ?          0:01 ipop3d
hamilton 29096   120 43   Sep 29 ?          0:00 ipop3d
 margo90 26006   120 55   Sep 29 ?          0:01 ipop3d
 crosbie  1888   120 80 05:27:22 ?          0:01 ipop3d
 hbwater  5564   120 42   Sep 29 ?          0:00 ipop3d
   tneer 21322   120 70 13:57:50 ?          0:01 ipop3d
    joeb  9477   120 51 09:43:01 ?          0:01 ipop3d
    root  4273   120 41   Sep 29 ?          0:00 ipop3d

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