secure pop server

[admin]

On Thu, 29 May 2003 23:34:41 -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote
> On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 11:23 PM, admin wrote:
> 
> > I am looking to set up a secure pop server on one of my FreeBSD 4.8 
> > Stable
> > boxes.  Can somebody send me in the right direction?  Recommend 
> > software and
> > provide links?
> 
> A POP3 server like cucipop works very nicely. It is found in 
> /usr/ports/mail/cucipop. By secure I am assuming you mean SSL 
> support. The best way to add SSL support to cucipop is using 
> stunnel. It is found in /usr/ports/security/stunnel. Cucipop works 
> great on a small scale but I use courier-imap 
> (/usr/ports/mail/courier-imap) along with stunnel for my main 
> server. (In case you are wondering, courier-imap includes a POP3 
> server as well as an IMAP server.) Courier-imap only supports 
> maildir while cucipop only supports mbox. It really depends on what 
> your requirements are. You did not give much information about what 
> your goal is. Hope that helps.
> 

yeah lets get some details in there.  the users of this application are
windows outlook users wanting to download their email while they travel - so I
think my options are to go for mbox support, no?


- Noah



> Bryan