My two cents -- and to answer Andi's question... I don't know of any other pop server that supports the constellation of features in tpop3d.
In addition to an extreamly flexible authentication backend, it provides extra data to the system that no other popper does: the hostname of the IP address of the accepted socket. This allows for IP-based virtual host of email. Other notable features are: post-authtication actions -- built-in support for mysql-based POP-before-SMTP; indexes of mbox-style mailboxes so that mbox-style mailboxes don't have to be so very very slow; and TLS/SSL connections. I wish I could find an IMAP server that did as much. I'm using dovecot and it's missing the IP-based virtual host support; the post-authentication action support; and some of the authentication flexibility. Despite my reluctance to avoid things that aren't pre-packaged for Debian, I went and compiled tpop3d for source to run on my Debian box. As for his other question about what to drop... Half of the pop servers in Debian are part of a suite (courier-pop, dovecot-pop3d, libroxen-pop3, xmail) and should be kept if the suite is kept. Of the others, the only one I've used is qpopper and it could be dropped in favor of tpop3d. The default config for tpop3d should be with password authentication and mbox format mailboxes. That would make it a drop-in replacement. One of my employees tried teapop and said that it sucked and apt-get remove'ed it. I don't know why. -Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
