Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 03:04:39 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: safest pop3 daemon Message-ID: <20020712070439.GM1189@hal9000.halplant.com> In-Reply-To: <20020712002808.94451.qmail@web14908.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020712002808.94451.qmail@web14908.mail.yahoo.com>
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Paulo, > I know there might be a lot of controversy (maybe a religous war??) :) > about this topic, but I would like to know your opinions about which > pop3 server seems to be the more secure one. You should probably do some research into the background of the POP3 servers in the FreeBSD ports collection, bearing in mind that the more popular ones have a higher exposure. As far as general principles go, complexity is the enemy of security. The popa3d[1] server is a small clean POP3 server from Solar Designer. > I am currently using the (default?) popd from 4.6, is it good? This doesn't say anything about which POP3 software you're using. There is no "default" and the name popd is generic. Try # pkginfo -W `which popd` FYI, popa3d is in the OpenBSD base distribution. [1] /usr/ports/mail/popa3d (See also http://www.openwall.com/popa3d/DESIGN) -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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