[imp] Strange timeout

[Scot Wilcoxon]

This long delay at startup is often due to a POP/IMAP server trying to
do a network "ident" query to a machine with ident disabled (or ident
might be blocked at a firewall because it is a mild security risk). 
Maybe the POP/IMAP server can be told not to do an ident query, or maybe
the machine without ident should run walldns or a similar
return-fake-information ident server.  If the POP machine is a Unix
machine, there might be an entry in a log file such as /var/log/secure.

A less likely reason for a minute-long delay could be running Secure
POP/IMAP on a 486, and the processor simply is taking a while to deal
with the encryption overhead.

Quoting Jesper Dalberg <jdn@cybercity.dk>:
> I only want to use POP3 access for starters. When I logon to my POP3
> server, IMP takes forever to log me in (a minute or 2), and then continues
> without reporting any errors.