On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Chris Snell wrote:
> [slightly off-topic]
This is why I Cc'd to pop-imap@???. (Probably the discussion should
continue there.)
> I think there is a real need for another freely-available POP3 server that
> satisfies the following needs:
>
> - fast
> - standalone (ie not spawned from inetd)
> - MySQL (or Oracle, DBM, ODBC, /etc/passwd, PAM, etc) authentication
> - support for different mailbox formats and mailbox hierarchies
> (ie /var/mail/s/snell, etc)
> - secure
>
> I've talked to several folks who are interested in writing something like
> this. Anyone else interested?
I am interested in discussing this more. I started writing a pop3d (but I
have little time). I also have patched gnu-pop3d many times
(
http://www.reedmedia.net/projects/virtualmail/) to provide virtual
domains support and hopefully fix some security and other problems.
Jeremy C. Reed
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