[nycbug-talk] POP3 server recommendations

[Pete Wright]

Kevin Reiter wrote:

>>I'm building a POP3 server for a client and am looking for suggestions for
>>the most secure (he-he) app available. According to the ports
>>descriptions, that brings me down to:
>>
>>akpop3d
>>dovecot
>>missey
>>
>>The client isn't interested in IMAP but wants POP3. Anyone have experience
>>with any of these and reasons to recommend one over the other?
>>    
>>
>
>How about qmail?  I seem to remember hearing that it was the most "secure"
>MTA around, but I'm no mail guru, so I can't give supporting arguments on
>that.  I use qmail with IMAP and POP3 with assorted addins myself and I much
>prefer it to postfix or any of the others.
>  
>
while qmail is a pretty secure MTA, it is infact that: a Mail Transfer 
Agent.  It does not handle POP or IMAP, it only moves the mail from 
machine to machine.

    having said that I have not had any experience with any of the above 
mentioned POP servers...i have used qpopper on debian.  but then i got 
smart and started using IMAP ;^)

-p



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