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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.infi.net!larry!rkohli From: rkohli@infi.net (rkohli@richmond.infi.net) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Some problems and questions with POP3D Date: 10 Jan 1995 16:43:20 GMT Organization: InfiNet Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3eudf8$bb2@lucy.infi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: larry.infi.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Greetings, In an attempt to debug why I could not receive e-mail from my pop client I get the following error message when I try to telnet to the pop port (110) inted[114]: execv /usr/local/etc/pop3d:Permission denied, nowhere in the doccumentation is there anything mentioned about this. Any ideas what I could do about this??? Another problem has been the time it takes to establish a connection with the FreeBSD box. It takes way to long when ping returns round trips of 0 milli seconds. Any suggestions on how to improve the connect speed. Thanks and cheers, Ranjan P.S. Specs:- 486 + NE2000 Ethernet card, 16 mb, sytem on a local ethernet based net of 30 macs running TCP/IP.