imap_open slow to open stream to POP

[brevoort]

I'm using imap_open to open a POP3 mailbox, and it is consitently taking 25 - 30 seconds to open the mailbox. I have tried to access a difference mailbox on a different server as well and encountered similar results.

I also telneted to the mailserver (from the server where I'm running PHP) over port 110 and logged in in a matter of seconds.

I'm running PHP4 on Windows 2000 server with the ISAPI dll for IIS.

Here's what my code looks like this:

$t1 = mktime();

$mbox = imap_open ("{"."$host"."/pop3:110}INBOX", "$user", "$pass");

$t2 = mktime();

print("time to open mailbox stream in seconds: ".$t2);

Thanks in advance! -mike

[brevoort]

WHOOPS! that last line is:

print("time to open mailbox stream in seconds: ".($t2-$t1));

[Anon]

I am having the same problem - did you find a fix for this?
Thanks

[Anon]

I found out how to fix this. simply make sure you supply the port number (143):

{$server:$port}$mailbox

Makes a HUGE difference = 30 seconds is now milliseconds