On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Drew Skinner wrote:
> 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
Actually, incoming messages should not have a X-UIDL header anyway -
they are supposed to only be used by a pop daemon so a client can avoid
downloading messages it has already copied, when it its 'leaving
messages on server'.
Often spammers add an X-UIDL header to their message to try and mess
with that scheme, possibly hoping you will get multiple copies of their
message (increaing the chances you will read it)
>
> 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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