From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 30 10:29:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15226 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:29:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhub.ainet.com (mailhub.ainet.com [204.30.40.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15221 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:29:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmscott@ainet.com) Received: from shell.ainet.com (jmscott@shell.ainet.com [204.30.40.108]) by mailhub.ainet.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA01834; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:28:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by shell.ainet.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11374; for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 30 Dec 98 10:30:57 PST Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:30:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph M. Scott" To: Spidey Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Which POP/IMAP server to use? In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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