Re: POP3 Window

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the heads up.  Please post the PTF when available.  We use 
this function at frankenseries.com but our volume is low enough that 
it's not been a problem to date.

- Larry

Wayne McAlpine wrote:

> Just a heads-up to those of you using the new V5R3 feature to open a 
> window for mail relaying following a pop3 logon, you could bring the 
> SMTP server to a halt if you've got lots of users logged on.  The 
> symptom is that sending mail can take several minutes, which is enough 
> to timeout most e-mail clients.  If you do a netstat for port 25 
> you'll see all the mail jobs just hanging there.  In our case, several 
> hundred mail ports occupied with almost no activity.
>
> I've been working this problem with IBM Support for the past two 
> weeks, and the only resolution so far is to disable the POP3 window.  
> No ptf's available yet.

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