RE: Domino and POP3

["Bill Paris" <bparis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

How many "hops" are between your site and your mail server? There are times
when I travel and call into one of those "1-800" numbers to get my mail. One
night my mail was taking an unusually long time to start transferring and a
couple times it timed out. I did a traceroute and found my mail server was
almost 20 hops away.

Bill Paris
Sorrento Cheese Co., Inc.
716-823-6262 x376



Thanks for the info, it was helpful, but I don't think it is exactly what I
was looking for. I am going to look into what you have described though,
mine was set to 5 as you suggested.

The problem I was trying to describe is when a POP3 client connects to
receive mail. From the time of the connect, Domino appears to be gathering
all the mail together before starting the transfer to the client. For
example, I have had several hundred messages after a vacation, thanks to
lists like this one <grin>, and before one message is transferred it can
take almost 5 minutes. I am fairly sure about the time, because 5 minutes is
the timeout I have set on my Outlook client. Once the transfer starts, it
can still take a considerable amount of time, but the "time to start" when
receiving to a POP3 client is my problem.

Thanks,
Bob Randall
Airxcel, Inc.

> Are you using multiple Domino servers?  If so there are things
> called connection documents.  These control how often and when to
> send mail from one server to the next.  Default is 5 mails.  I
> always change this to one.
>
> Also check the connection document to the internet.  !#$#!@%^&
> how did mine get set to five?  I am going to change that.
>
> Connection documents are stored in the Name and Address Book
> under Servers - Connections.


> I am using Domino and almost all of my clients (75) are using
> POP3 software,
> Outlook, Notes Mail, Outlook express, Netscape, etc. My problem is, when a
> user gets large mail messages,  2mb and up, or many messages, the server
> cannot put all the messages together fast enough. It appears the
> POP3 server
> (Domino) must load all the messages into memory or something
> before it trys
> to transmit any to the client. Is this normal, or does anyone know of a
> setting that will let Domino transmit one message and then go back to get
> the next?
>
> Bob Randall
> Airxcel, Inc.

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