James and Robert, On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 01:02:53PM -0500, Robert B. Carleton wrote: > On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 17:03 +0200, James Turner wrote: > > I plan on removing mail/pop3d unless anyone objects? It hasn't been > > updated in 5 years upstream and we have been maintaining our own > > patches > > to keep it working. I haven't been running it myself anymore and when > > I > > tested it on 7.7 it doesn't appear to work anymore. > > > > If someone wants to take maintainership and try to fix it thats fine > > by > > me as well. > > > > James > > > > I've tried to use pop3d in the past, but found abuse would make the > service crash often enough to be a problem. I was also kind of turned > off by the lack up recent upstream updates. I've since moved to running > popa3d on localhost as an inetd service, fronted by relayd. That works > much better. I won't miss pop3d. >
In 2017 Sunil Nimmagadda already told me he had abandoned this project (he answered to a post I made here with a patch to add an option for reading alternative certs and keys.) While I used it back then, it worked fine. My wife and I were the only users downloading from our home server, which is perhaps why we didn't run into the problem Robert mentions. If these crashes are serious I doubt anyone would be interested in using it. As for fixing and maintaining it, I don't have the skills as a programmer to do it. It's a shame; it's more in line with the OpenBSD style than beasts like Dovecot. -- Walter
