Re: [Exim] Re: Cubic Circle RPM and source

Or is qmail different than qpopper? Are we talking the same thing?
Quallcomm?

Sincerely,

Richard G. Duvall

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 03:25:59AM -0700, Richard G. Duvall wrote:
>
> > Problem is, it says in the docs that the db2 portion has to be there to
> > support virtual pop servers. This is one of the main reasons we are
> > moving to cucipop. That, and the disk IO issue, which cucipop is
> > supposedly better at that qpopper.
> >
> > But, you are right, it compiles easily without the db2 portion... Any way
> > we could have vpop servers without the db2? Any other popper we should
> > look at that is good on disk IO as well?
>
> Try qmail's pop3d. It only works with Maildirs, but exim can write to a
> Maildir. It's small and fast, and because of the Maildir structure (one
> file per message), very good about disk IO. No files to copy around. And
> Maildirs work reliably over NFS too. The best part about qmail-pop3d is
> that its auth it separate from the actual POP server. It is launched in
> a chain somewhat like this:
>
> qmail-popup checkpassword qmail-pop3d
>
> where qmail-popup asks for a username and password, passes those
> to checkpassword (the default checkpassword by DJB auths from
> /etc/passwd, but you can write your own to auth from anywhere, eg.
> RADIUS, another file, MySQL) and if the auth is successful, runs
> the qmail-pop3d (or you can even run a shell script which could
> capture the IP address for POP-before-SMTP, and then exec the
> qmail-pop3d). Very flexible, and very easy to use and understand.
> If you need to modify its source code for any reason, it's also
> very cleanly written and easy to understand.
>
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