From owner-freebsd-security Fri Aug 21 17:35:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23287 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:35:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23279 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:35:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.1 [OUT])) id RAA07291; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id RAA06188; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:34:33 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id SAA06566; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 18:34:32 -0600 Message-ID: <35DE1217.8472B1A1@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 18:34:31 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REQ: free pop3 daemon recommendations References: <20938.903553244@axl.training.iafrica.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > > Sheldon Hearn writes: > > Having followed the bloated and eventually off-topic discussions that > > spawned off the qpopper vulnerability announcement, I don't recall > > anyone mentioning free alternatives. > > You should read more carefully. Both Cyrus IMAP and imap-uw were > mentioned early in the thread. The general consensus seems to be that > Cyrus is fast while imap-uw is easy to set up. imap-uw has had more than it's share of security exploits of late, too. The FreeBSD version has (hopefully) been patched to keep up with them. Both implement POP2 and POP3 as well. The other caveat about Cyrus is that (most) command-line mailers will no longer work; imap-uw uses the UNIX mailboxes and is therefore compabitible with "legacy" mail clients. I picked imap-uw because it took two minutes to install and zero to configure. If I get hacked seriously it'd take me little time to restore the machine; it's a 486/66 that runs mail and little else, for my 5-person company. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message