On Thursday 17 January 2002 12:57 pm, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > 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.
in the past, i've used qpopper to link a bunch of macs to a mail server running irix. the configuration was damn near automatic. if i had to do what you do, that's what i'd use.
