POP daemon
Kirk Bailey
idiot1 at netzero.net
Mon Jun 16 16:40:41 PDT 2003
I rather enjoy the benifits of Qpopper.
http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/
markm at freebsd.org wrote:
> Dave writes:
>
>>What would be a good POP daemon to use? I know there are a few in the
>>mail ports. Are they any good?
>
>
> This question is impossible to answer. :-) "Hey! You have CD's! Are
> any of them any good?" "Of course they are! That's why I bought
> them??!"
>
>
>>What I mean by good is 'secure as possible' (is there really such thing as
>>being totally secure / invulnerable?)
>
>
> You need to help folks when asking very open questions like this.
>
> 1) What is your threat model?
> a) What are you trying to protect?
> b) How badly do your attackers want this?
> c) How much can you afford for resources to thwart this?
>
> 2) What research have you already done?
> a) You should have knowlege of a set of features and be asking
> about those.
> b) you should already know which are blatantly _not_ suitable
> and why.
>
> 3) Why does this question not belong in newbies@/questions@?
> The use of the word "secure" is not enough.
>
> Without pre-empting the above, you won't get useful answers. It's
> like asking "What car should I get?", without disclosing that you
> are a family man, and that a Ferrari is useless compared with an RV.
>
> M
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