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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:49:46 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        "Edward W. M." <edward_wm@hotmail.com>, dominic_marks@hotmail.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Secure Servers (SMTP, POP3, FTP)
Message-ID:  <20010213234946.A91066@rapier.smartspace.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <3A896D6E.6A4DB03@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:22:54AM -0700
References:  <LC4-LFD104zkps49rAG00000067@hotmail.com> <20010213093240.A40761@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <3A88F07D.535984D2@softweyr.com> <20010213103056.A45128@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <3A896D6E.6A4DB03@softweyr.com>

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On Tue 2001-02-13 (10:22), Wes Peters wrote:
> Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue 2001-02-13 (01:29), Wes Peters wrote:
> > > > On Mon 2001-02-12 (15:51), Edward W. M. wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > ports/mail/courier-imap looks promising, but at this stage it's just
> > > > > something for people who want to tinker with it, IMHO. It's fairly
> > > > > new, so it has no proven security record and it currently supports
> > > > > the Maildir format ONLY.
> > > >
> > > > It also does POP3.
> > >
> > > And IMAP-SSL, and POP3-SSL.  It's far beyond the tinkering stage,
> > > though feeding it with qmail is a mistake in my opinion.  Ick.
> > 
> > And there's always courier.  I haven't used it in a production
> > environment, but I'm confident in Sam's ability to write a
> > standards-compliant SMTP server that doesn't suck technically.  The
> > question is whether Outlook will support it. ;)
> 
> That's what we were talking about.  It seems to work entirely adequately
> with the 4 or 5 versions of Lookout! and Lookout! Distress we've tested
> with.  It also works with Netscrape 4.x and 6.x, TkRat/Ratatosk, and
> Mulberry.  I haven't tried Eudora yet, but the wrecking^Wtesting crew
> will get to that sometime soon.

I meant using Courier as the MTA, if that confused the issue.

Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org


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