> > > > From this, it is clear to me there is some major delay being > introduced by > > the loading of the IMAP extension. Any ideas on how to resolve this? > > use php as an apache module - thereby the startup delay is only > noticed when > the webserver starts - this assumes that the problem is a startup > problem ... No can do. I need to run my PHP scripts as different users and to interact with the file system. > what you describe could be down to a dns configuration error - > i.e. the imap extension > is trying to resolve some domainname and having a hard time of > it.... I can't remember > the specifics of such issues but I know that the archives of this > list will turn up more info > regarding dns config problems (that cause slow downs) This sounds very plausible. It certainly seems as if the delay is due to a timeout or similar. I'll see what I can find on this in the archives. Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php