Date: 30 May 2003 11:39:53 +0100 From: Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org> To: kennyf@pchg.net Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: POP3 Server Recomendation? Message-ID: <1054291192.68244.21.camel@simon.lcn.biz> In-Reply-To: <200305291614.51033.kennyf@pchg.net> References: <200305291614.51033.kennyf@pchg.net>
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On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 20:14, Kenny Freeman wrote: > Hello, I'm new to this list so I'm not sure if this has been asked many times > before or is even the correct list to ask. I'm wondering if anyone here can > share their experiences with POP3 servers - good and bad. I'm currently > running tpop3d using mysql authentication. I had to hack the source a little > to get the mysql auth to work properly, plus I'm getting timeouts and stale > lock files more often than I would like. Any suggestions on a better pop3 > daemon? I'm not nec. looking for mysql auth support, as I can use cron > scripts to generate whatever authentication format is required/supported. I > just want something that doesn't timeout, handles large attachments with ease > and doesn't leave stale lock files lying around. I'd suggest looking at mail/teapop which supports mysql auth and using both maildir or mbox format mail drops with no problem. As Troy said in his reply to this, mbox isn't really ideal for storing mail in.
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