Problems with pop3d

[Fabian Hellmundt]

Hey, das ist ja sogar mehr Info als ich haben wollte ;-) Aber jetzt hab ichs 
verstanden, Dankeschön!

> Hallo Fabian
>
> Die Uebersetzung lautet "Entropie".
>
> Hier Infos zu deinem Problem:
> http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/POP3DevRandomIssue
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>
> Hier Infos zur Entropie:
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropie_%28Informationstheorie%29
>
> Solltest du danach noch Fragen haben, wende dich an einen
> naturwissenschaftlichen Lehrer deines Vertrauens [Chemie|Physik|
> Mathematik] der sollte das Konzept der Entropie kennen und es dir
> erklaeren koennen. Er wird dann wohl ehere vom 2. Hauptsatz der
> Thermodynamik her argumentieren. Aber so ein bisschen
> Interdiszplinaritaet schadet sicher nicht ;-)
>
>
> cu
>
> romeo
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> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 17:04 +0200, Fabian Hellmundt wrote:
>> >> Hello everyone,
>> >>  we're setting up a new mailserver for our local school and had chosen
>> >> cyrus for imap/pop3. The point is that everything works fine (the 
>> >> whole
>> >> authentication thing with sasl etc...) except the pop3d: At first 
>> >> pop3d
>> >> works, connecting to port 110 it shows the banner and your're able to
>> >> authenticate. But after authenticating and quitting and trying a 
>> >> secound
>> >> time, the connection can be established indeed, but you don't get the
>> >> greeting banner of the pop3d. It seems to be a dead connection. 
>> >> Moreover
>> >> you get a zombie-pop3d-process every time you try to connect. And if 
>> >> you
>> >> wait a random time, cyrus seems to "heal" itself and everything works
>> >> fine again.
>> >
>> > Your server is most likely running out of entropy for OpenSSL to 
>> > produce
>> > an APOP challenge, which appears in the banner.  You'll have to find a 
>> > way
>> > to provide OpenSSL with suitable entropy, or disable APOP by setting
>> > allowapop:off in imapd.conf.
>> >
>> >
>> > -- 
>> > Kenneth Murchison
>> > Systems Programmer
>> > Carnegie Mellon University
>> >
>> I have just disabled apop and everything works fine.. Thank you! But
>> honestly I don't really understand why it works now. What is meant by an
>> entropy? I didn't find a suitable translation in my dictionaries :-)
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