POP3 Server Recomendation?
Kenny Freeman
kennyf at pchg.net
Fri May 30 14:30:46 PDT 2003
I am going to be moving to maildir as soon as FreeBSD 5.1 is out and we move
to our new mail server box. Never really paid much attention to maildir
format, but now I see why it is so much better. I'm leaning towards cyrus or
courier atm. Thanks for the feedback everyone.
-Kenny
On December 31, 1969 07:59 pm, you wrote:
> I use Courier-IMAP too. It supports IMAP, POP3, TLS, MySQL, etc....
> However the original poster seemed to be talking about mbox format
> mail files, which I don't believe it supports.
>
> Nate
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ziggy at one2net.co.ug>
> To: <simond at irrelevant.org>
> Cc: <freebsd-isp at freebsd.org>; <kennyf at pchg.net>
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:41
> Subject: Re: POP3 Server Recomendation?
>
> > while you are at it try and have a look at courier-imap works fine
>
> with
>
> > mysql auth
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > David
> >
> > > On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 20:14, Kenny Freeman wrote:
> > >> 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.
> > >
> > > I'd suggest looking at mail/teapop which supports mysql auth and
>
> using
>
> > > both maildir or mbox format mail drops with no problem. As Troy
>
> said in
>
> > > his reply to this, mbox isn't really ideal for storing mail in.
> > >
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