My mate has just asked if I could set up an old machine to run as a
little mail server for 3 people who hang out together, all running macs.
They have an ADSL line connection without a fixed IP. I thought I'd run
exim/fetchmail (in daemon mode) and procmail to filter mail into the
mailboxes.
However I need a Mac-friendly pop3 daemon that will work well with exim
and Macs (OS9 Entourage and OSX Mail, I think). There are no special
needs. However if there is no real difference between them, I'd prefer
to 'do it right' and learn to configure a good pop3 implementation
rather than a lightweight one. My office, with about 120 workers, might
need a pop3 server in the future!
I'm running Woody. Dselect offers the following when doing a search for
'pop3':
* ipopd
* mailutils-pop3d
* cyrus-pop3d (not standard mbox format?)
* solid-pop3d
* qpopper
* cucipop (my isp uses this, and they are good. Is this?
it is listed as non-free though...)
* popa3d
I'd be grateful for recommendations.
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Rory Campbell-Lange
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