Re: Mail (pop3) & IP Masquerasing..
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
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> Hi Michael!
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> On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
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> > I have had IP Masquerading running perfectly for the last 8-9 Months, but
> > My friend got to his inevitable reformat of his Windows 98 Hard Drive, and
> > he carefully asked me if I could install Linux for him... Fine by me, I
> > could then make use of his 56k modem via IP Masquerading. Everything is
> > installed and working well, but there is one problem. When I try to
> > download my mail from my pop account at our ISP (We have our own accounts
> > at the same ISP), fetchmail -v gets to retrieving message 1, and then all
> > hell slows to a halt. It takes forever for the mail message to be
> > downloaded.
>
> are you using diald? (dial on demand)
Nope, But I found the problem, about 3 minutes ago.. The initialisation
strings for his modem were all f*ed up, and 56k was not being used...
subsequently, netscape is downloading faster now!
Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)
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