Our mail mail server is a 486 SuSE 6.3 system with pop3 service. We use Eudora Light version 3.06 (both 16-bit and 32-bit) clients to connect to the server. The problem we are having is that when checking for email some clients unpredictably take very long or timeout when the response takes longer than about 30 seconds. From other computers the checking of email from the same computer takes less than a second, consistently. from inetd.conf: pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/popper -s To test, I use telnet 192.168.1.1 110, then wait for Connected to 192.168.1.1. Escape character is '^]'. +OK QPOP (version 2.53) at gateway.iccontrols.com starting. The "Connected" and "Escape" lines come up almost immediately, but the +OK line can take > 30 seconds. To test further I also have a new machine that is 1 GHz, 1 G RAM, with SuSE 7.3 installed. I installed qpopper-4.0.3-34, then tested again with telnet. Connected to 192.168.2.1. Escape character is '^]'. +OK ready <20166.1015439267@pe01.iccontrols.com> The +OK line takes 12 seconds. Since this is a fast machine that is not doing anything else, I would expect the +OK to come up practically immediately. Any clues would be appreciated. View our website at <http://www.iccontrols.com> 1-519-941-8161, 1-800-265-9161,Fax: 1-519-941-8164, E-Mail: sales@iccontrols.com