Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:30:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph M. Scott" <jmscott@ainet.com> To: Spidey <beaupran@jsp.umontreal.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Which POP/IMAP server to use? Message-ID: <Pine.GSU.4.05.9812301027000.9275-100000@www.ainet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981230122531.20410A-100000@localhost.jsp.umontreal.ca>
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On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Spidey wrote: > Hi! > > I'm setting up a mail server, and I had the joy to see that FreeBSD > featured 3 servers that would comply with my needs (imap-uw, cucipop, > cyrus). I heard that qpopper wasn't quite safe, and I don't know really > much of the 3 others... What shall I do? There was a rather big issue with on older version of qpopper. If you are installing a recent version of FreeBSD ( 2.2.8 and 3.0 of course definitely falling into this category ) then the version of qpopper listed in the ports/packages is the newest and as far as I've heard there aren't any security issues. I played with some of the other options, mostly with the idea that it would be nice to get imap going. The biggest problem I had with imap was the clients. Outlook and Netscape both support imap, but must do it in different ways, because they seemed to step on eachother a fair bit. If I recall correctly it dealt mostly with folder creation. Anyways, my $0.02 > > Spidey > * Joseph M. Scott * jmscott@ainet.com * American InfoMetrics * Modesto, CA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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