tpop3d experience ?

[Simon Dick]

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 19:54, Andy Dills wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> 
> > * Kurt Jaeger <lists at complx.LF.net> [20040321 23:26]: wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I'm researching other POP server options besides qpopper
> > > on servers with many (6K+) and sometimes large (200MB+) pop boxes
> > > in maildir configuration.
> > >
> > > Is someone using tpop3d ? Care to share your experience ?
> >
> > I have over 10k user accounts from /etc/passwd (system users,
> > without shells) and over 4k users from MySQL.
> > I run tpop3d-1.5.3 (actually I've been running it since those
> > early days of 1.3.x) and I must say I am very happy with it.
> > Before that, I did run other pop3 daemons but they lacked the
> > flexibility I wanted. This is an ISP enviroment, using Maildir
> > for both system accounts and DB based users.
> >
> > With tpop3d, you can't go wrong!
> 
> For what it's worth, qmail's pop3d is also pretty solid. Very small, very
> lightweight, and you get to write your own password authentication if you
> want.
> 
> For an MTA however, I don't use qmail, I use postfix (but with maildir).
> 
> Although, this thread has convinced me to try out tpop3d...I'll definitely
> give it a look.

Give teapop a look too, I find that works very well too