Hi;
I thought I'd drop this in too. We were running Exim in conjunction
with qpopper 2.53 at the beginning. This migrated to cucipop, but as
an unsupported pop3 daemon, we were getting too many errors from it.
So I went back to qpopper, now v3, but after watching the load
average on the mail server climb from 1.7 to
about 2.6 - decided that it wasn't acceptable. Qpopper was generating
the additional load.
I recently learned of a small, self contained pop daemon that handles virtual
domains, can authenticate on a per domain basis and is totally compatible with
Exim's mbox format.
The solution to the load issues came by having exim remove and x-uidl headers
from incoming mail, then generate it's own 25 char hash of an inbound messages'
headers & writing that out with the message.
The new pop daemon reads in all existing uidl statements and sends them to
end users MUA - thus not breaking anything. My load average is down
to 1.2 & I'm saving CPU cycles with every message :-)
The popper is called teapop - it's compact and quite tidy. More features like
cucipop's expire tags will be added to it shortly.
If you want the uidl compatibility wait for the release of v 0.27
It can be found at
http://www.toontown.org/teapop or email ibo@???
If anyone wants to give it a try - there's one Irix patch and I also
have the uidl patch - you can email me at <drew@???>
All the best,
Drew.
At 2:22 PM +0100 10/13/00, Corin Hartland-Swann wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>This is probably off-topic, but I thought it best to ask here what POP3
>daemon to use with exim.
>
>I want to set up POP accounts completely independently of the passwd file,
>so that I only need to have user accounts for people who log in to the
>server. I guess this means that all of these accounts will have user/group
>mail, and the POP3 daemon will run as this as well.
>
>I'd ideally like to use a POP3 daemon that supports some kind of non-clear
>text authentication with Outlook, as that's what my users use. Having a
>quick look at it, the only one it seems to handle is called "Secure
>Password Authentication" - but I've never heard of it.
>
>My question is: can anyone recommend a POP3 daemon that will definately
>handle the former, and hopefully the latter as well?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Corin
>
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