simple, nay, elegant pop3 implementation?

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Wed May 26 16:48:12 PDT 2004


On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:34:15PM -0700, Andrew Beals wrote:
> Why is there no default pop3 implementation included in the FreeBSD 
> distribution?  Is it for a lack of a suitably-licensed server, or does 
> everyone believe APOP authentication is crackable?

This isn't Linux. :-)  POP servers are neither traditional BSD
software nor useful to the majority of FreeBSD systems so they live in
ports.  There are quite a large number of them there in the mail
category.

-- Brooks

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