POP3 Server Recomendation?

[Troy Settle]

Kenny,

>From the comment regarding timeouts and lockfiles, I'd guess that you're
delivering mail to mbox files.  Have you considered switching to Maildir
delivery?  Tpop can do this natively and will likely perform much better
than it is now.  Timeouts may still occur on large messages, but the
locking issues will go away immediately.

FWIW, I've been very happy with Courier-IMAP, which includes a POP3
server.  Authentication from MySQL is trivial to set up (there's a
config that you can define your own query to return the necessary
authentication information).

G'luck,

--
  Troy Settle
  Pulaski Networks
  http://www.psknet.com
  540.994.4254 - 866.477.5638
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kenny Freeman
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 3:15 PM
> To: freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> Subject: POP3 Server Recomendation?
> 
> 
> Hello, I'm new to this list so I'm not sure if this has been 
> asked many times 
> before or is even the correct list to ask. I'm wondering if 
> anyone here can 
> share their experiences with POP3 servers - good and bad. I'm 
> currently 
> running tpop3d using mysql authentication. I had to hack the 
> source a little 
> to get the mysql auth to work properly, plus I'm getting 
> timeouts and stale 
> lock files more often than I would like. Any suggestions on a 
> better pop3 
> daemon? I'm not nec. looking for mysql auth support, as I can 
> use cron 
> scripts to generate whatever authentication format is 
> required/supported. I 
> just want something that doesn't timeout, handles large 
> attachments with ease 
> and doesn't leave stale lock files lying around.
> 
> 
> -Kenny
>