From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 0: 4:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C4C837B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:04:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.halplant.com (ip68-100-145-31.nv.nv.cox.net [68.100.145.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D091C43E42 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:04:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A.J.Caines@halplant.com) Received: by mail.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D503F1D8; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 03:04:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 03:04:39 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: safest pop3 daemon Message-ID: <20020712070439.GM1189@hal9000.halplant.com> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020712002808.94451.qmail@web14908.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020712002808.94451.qmail@web14908.mail.yahoo.com> Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-PGP-Fingerprint: C59A 2F74 1139 9432 B457 0B61 DDF2 AA61 67C3 18A1 X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE X-URL: http://halplant.com:88/ Importance: Normal User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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