From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 25 03:10:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC5C16A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 03:10:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.irrelevant.org (dsl-217-155-238-246.zen.co.uk [217.155.238.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B3143D41 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 03:10:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simond@irrelevant.org) Received: from [62.244.179.195] (helo=[192.168.195.53]) by home.irrelevant.org with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1B6Sl2-000MVC-DD; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:10:44 +0000 From: Simon Dick To: Andy Dills In-Reply-To: <20040324145054.K23306@thunder.xecu.net> References: <20040321202625.GR7109@complx.LF.net> <20040322142823.GA32786@ns2.wananchi.com> <20040324145054.K23306@thunder.xecu.net> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1080213028.94023.16.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:10:28 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.1 (----) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "nelly.internal.irrelevant.org", hasmessageblock similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 19:54, Andy Dills wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > * Kurt Jaeger [20040321 23:26]: wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I'm researching other POP server options besides qpopper > > > onin maildir configuration. > > > > > > Is someone using tpop3d ? Care to share your experience ? > > > > I have over 10k user accounts from /etc/passwd (system users, > > without shells) and over 4k users from MySQL. > > I run tpop3d-1.5.3 (actually I've been running it sinceit. > > Before that, I did run other pop3 daemons but they lacked the > > forcan'tsolid.password authentication if you > want. > > For an MTA however, I don't usehas convinced me to try out tpop3d...I'll definitely > give it a look. [...] Content analysis details: (-4.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description --------------------------------------------------1% [score: 0.0000] 0.8 AWL AWL: Auto-whitelist adjustment cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tpop3d experience ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:10:53 -0000 On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 19:54, Andy Dills wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > * Kurt Jaeger [20040321 23:26]: wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I'm researching other POP server options besides qpopper > > > on servers with many (6K+) and sometimes large (200MB+) pop boxes > > > in maildir configuration. > > > > > > Is someone using tpop3d ? Care to share your experience ? > > > > I have over 10k user accounts from /etc/passwd (system users, > > without shells) and over 4k users from MySQL. > > I run tpop3d-1.5.3 (actually I've been running it since those > > early days of 1.3.x) and I must say I am very happy with it. > > Before that, I did run other pop3 daemons but they lacked the > > flexibility I wanted. This is an ISP enviroment, using Maildir > > for both system accounts and DB based users. > > > > With tpop3d, you can't go wrong! > > For what it's worth, qmail's pop3d is also pretty solid. Very small, very > lightweight, and you get to write your own password authentication if you > want. > > For an MTA however, I don't use qmail, I use postfix (but with maildir). > > Although, this thread has convinced me to try out tpop3d...I'll definitely > give it a look. Give teapop a look too, I find that works very well too