[Summary] popd - DU4.0E which one should I use?
Well the over night crew finally came in. I received six responses,
two responses on the same day, and four more came in from over night.
The following people responded.
Frank Wortner <frank_at_bondnet.com>
Thomas Peruzzi <thomas.peruzzi_at_fh-sbg.ac.at>
LARRY.CLEGG_at_LPL.COM
Keith Piepho <kap_at_uakron.edu>
Nikola Milutinovic <Nikola.Milutinovic_at_ev.co.yu>
Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo_at_albourne.com>
No one recomends using the Rand Mail Handler which comes with DU4.0E.
I had (5) votes for Qpopper and (2) votes for IMAPd. (5) + (2) = (6)
because somebody voted twice. :)
I think I will investigate the IMAPd suggestion further before I make
my decision on Qpopper.
http://www.washington.edu/imap
Below you will find a quote from the University of Washington
concerning IMAPd.
ftp://ftp.CAC.Washington.EDU/mail/imap.vs.pop.brief
"The purpose of this paper is to briefly consider the Internet-based
protocols: POP (Post Office Protocol), DMSP (Distributed Mail System
Protocol), and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). Of the three,
POP is the oldest and consequently the best known. DMSP is largely
limited to a single application, PCMAIL, and is known primarily for
its excellent support of "disconnected" operation. IMAP offers a
superset of POP and DMSP capabilities, and provides good support for
all three modes of remote mailbox access: offline, online, and
disconnected. (See RFC-1733 for definitions.)"
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[Quotes from the respondents, but not in any particular order]
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"The MH version of the pop daemon will be "retired" after 5.0 -- at
least that's what the 5.0 release notes say. The replacement "... is
an implementation based on Qualcomm's public domain POP3 service known
as popper." Looks like popper is the choice for the future.
I'm not sure what you mean by "good for C2." If you are looking for a
pop daemon modified to work with DEC's (oops, I mean Compaq's)
security setup, then a good source is the one on
http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/IAS/qpop2.3.tar.Z. There are others
there, but that's the one I've personally used on 4.0D running C2.
The nice thing about these bits of modified source code is that
compiled correctly, the same binary will work without change under
both "normal" and C2 security."
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"We use the qpopper because it is free and you have a lot of
possibilities to configure, like running popper not via inetd but as a
daemon, which looks good for heay load pop-servers. Another nice
feature of qpop is the ability of hashed-mail-spool files. We are
running a pop-server for about 1000 users with the qpopper and we do
not have any problems."
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"I'd drop the Rand thing and go with the Qualcomm QPopper - we use it
here and it works great. We've actually extended it to use our own
in-house authentication server rather than the Unix username/password
databases."
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"We use qpopper. It is not difficult to configure, even with C2
security, and it is free. The source tree contains a "configure"
script to be run before a "make", and ./configure --enable-specialauth
make configures the package for C2 security and compiles. I have
never used MH or IAS, so I do not have any basis of comparison, but
qpopper works fine for us. Make sure you use at least 2.53, as older
versions had security problems."
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"IAS has three solutions. QPopper is the default. It also has Cyrus
IMAP and UW IMAP, which have POP3 daemons included."
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"Try the University of Washington IMAPd which comes with a good POP-2
and POP-3 server. See ftp.CAC.Washington.EDU which is where it comes
from."
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[Q] popd - DU4.0E which one should I use?
Hi, I am thinking about configuring popd. I don't know which one to
use. The freeware CD has Qpopper, a popd daemon from Qualcomm and
4.0E ships with the Rand Mail Handler another variant of popd.
I find the Rand Mail Handler which comes with Tru64 4.0E has already
been installed on my system but not yet configured. I hear this
variant of popd may not ship with True64 5.0 or that it will soon be
depreciated. What is the scoop on this? I hear the Rand MH is good
for C2 security and O'Reilly has a really thick book on it.
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/mh/index.htm I like O'Reilly books.
I also hear Qpopper was not good for C2 security but was easier to use
when C2 was not an issue. www.eudora.com/freeware/qpop_faq.html I
like things that are easier to use.
I do not have IAS which is Compaq's Internet Application Server suite.
I don't think I can afford IAS but then I don't know how much it costs
either? What does IAS do? What flavor of popd ships with that
package?
[Q] SO if I am low on money, which one should I configure, Rand MH or
Qpopper?
Received on Thu Nov 04 1999 - 15:30:20 NZDT