Date: 17 Jun 2003 21:49:59 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> To: Vlad GALU <vladg@vipnet.ro> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: POP daemon Message-ID: <878ys09mt4.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> In-Reply-To: <20030617194111.1e79eb78.vladg@vipnet.ro> References: <20030616105955.U11598@metafocus.net> <004601c334ed$d3381f70$0200a8c0@cp14275a> <20030617194111.1e79eb78.vladg@vipnet.ro>
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Vlad GALU <vladg@vipnet.ro> writes: > I can't complain about qmail-pop3d either. Does wonders, > but you have to use qmail though :) Agreed about qmail's pop3d. All of the qmail suite has a very good history of security. But you don't *have* to use qmail's smtpd and MTA, but you will have to use a Maildir mailbox format -- it's what pop3d reads. You can actually configure sendmail to deliver to Maildirs using the "maildrop" program and I understand recent "procmail" can do this too -- configure sendmail to use these instead of the regular local delivery agent. I prefer qmail but if you feel compelled to use sendmail, this is an option. Also, single-mailbox-file-per-user will *always* be slow for POP users who want to leave a bunch of mail on server. This kills qpopper, ancient or modern versions. Maildir's one-message-per-file makes this easy since it doesn't have to rewrite a big mailbox file all the time. Other MTAs like courier understand Maildir natively. And if you're looking for an IMAP server which is Maildir-aware, I like courier's imapd, available separately from the entire courier suite, if you want to combine qmail with courier-imapd. They're all in the ports, /usr/mail/*.
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