From owner-freebsd-security Tue Feb 13 13:50:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90EA137B4EC for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:50:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 91101 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Feb 2001 21:49:46 -0000 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:49:46 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Wes Peters Cc: "Edward W. M." , dominic_marks@hotmail.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure Servers (SMTP, POP3, FTP) Message-ID: <20010213234946.A91066@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <20010213093240.A40761@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <3A88F07D.535984D2@softweyr.com> <20010213103056.A45128@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <3A896D6E.6A4DB03@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A896D6E.6A4DB03@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:22:54AM -0700 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message