Changing just the daemon while not fixing the real resons why another one does not work as expected is not wise in my eyes. But in your other mailing you are right, that DROPing ident requests is a dumb thing.
Steve asked two questions, as I read his post: what might be causing his problems, and is there a better POP server daemon. I attempted to answer both, independently of each other.
Anyway, it's not the case in here that the identd make the problems. It's DNS lookups and maybe not resoving reverse lookups. It's a common issue with other net applications as ssh, telnet or ftp logins too.
Steve's case may be either, both, or something else entirely. DNS (both forward and reverse) timeouts and ident requests are, however, the two most common causes of this kind of problem; as you noted.
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
