timeouts when connecting to imap server

[Nik Conwell]

On Dec 1, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Timo Veith wrote:

[...]
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to 127.0.0.1.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> And I can wait and wait ...
>
> This is the point where I start wondering what the hell cyrus is  
> doing now
> that it takes so long to answer.
>
> I started the master daemon with -D and export CYRUS_VERBOSE=1, but  
> I saw
> no log messages that helped me. At least they don't sound critical  
> to me.
> Is there anything I should be looking for?

Have you tried strace -tt -p on the master to see if it gets hung up  
somewhere?  Does netstat --listening or netstat --tcp show a large  
listen queue for it?