From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 20 14:56:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3253D37B40C for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 14:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dallben (pcp529856pcs.nash01.tn.comcast.net [68.52.131.181]) by mtaout03.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with ESMTP id <0GY0006GAYA89J@mtaout03.icomcast.net> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:56:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:56:32 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" Subject: Re: I Volunteer In-reply-to: <3D11E8F7.14C12D96@mitre.org> X-X-Sender: bandix@dallben.homeportal.2wire.net To: Jason Andresen Cc: Darren Pilgrim , Evan Dower , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-id: <20020620164727.A1108-100000@dallben.homeportal.2wire.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Jason Andresen wrote: >I thought the strength of uw-imap was that it was fairly easy to >configure for a machine with local users. The strength of uw-imap is clearly that it's fairly easy to allow remote users to root your machine. courier-imap has a bit better track record but still isn't stellar. This month there were exploits for both uw-imap and courier-imap. >The same certainly couldn't be said for Cyrus. Heck, I nearly slit my >own wrists out of frustration trying to get Cyrus working. Doesn't >help that its online documentation is poo either. Configuring Cyrus isn't any more difficult than any sufficiently useful piece of software like a good MTA, amanda, BIND, etc. The Linux Cyrus HOWTO is helpful as is the O'Reilly Managing IMAP book. Brandon D. Valentine -- http://www.geekpunk.net bandix@geekpunk.net ++[>++++++<-]>[<++++++>-]<.>++++[>+++++<-]>[<+++++>-]<+.+++++++..++ +.>>+++++[<++++++>-]<++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message