Re: FN-FORUM qmail, qpopper?

date posted 17th June 2002 22:18

Quoting MJ Ray [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Rob Garbutt [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> > What's the best pop3 daemon for unix?
> >
> > is qmail, qpopper? what's the best?
>
> solid pop3d (which supports APOP) gets quite a bit of use around here, but
> it all depends what you want to do with it. qpopper isn't bad, but misses
> many features.

The Cyrus pop3/imap server is a big favourite (and runs on FreeBSD). Lots
of people use this.

> I avoid qmail like the plague, partly because of its licence (if it breaks,
> only one man can fix the distribution), partly because its default messages
> suck ("Hi, I'm qmail at some-host-name. I've just eaten your email because
> of bargle-blooth-ramble-techie-junk. Hope that's OK." User: "No, of course
> it's not OK!") and partly because of its author's track record of just
> ignoring standards when he doesn't like them.

Agreed. Just don't go there. The pain isn't worth it.

James