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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Best pop3d Server for FreeBSD? Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 19:02:11 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3280E0B3.3B18@www.play-hookey.com> References: <327E51B7.4112@cococo.net> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.internex.net.au!203.17.71.35!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!news Kelley wrote: > > Hey all, > I am currently Linux with the 1.004 in.pop3d for mail retrieval, I have > recently started using FreeBSD and I am thinking seriously about > converting the mail server over to FreeBSD. Two questions: > > 1. What do you recommend for a pop server? I use qpop from the packages-current (perhaps now packages-2.2 with the latest rearrangements -- I haven't looked recently). It's been working fine for me and my family (plus a few priviledged friends). > > 2. I have several users with usernames over 8 chars, I know you have to > recompile the kernel to allow more than 8, but what other problems might > I run into if I do this? I looked into doing this a while back. Several of the utility programs (such as add_user) also contain the 8-character limit. After hunting down several such routines, I gave up and went with aliases for incoming mail. At the very least, you'll have to recompile the kernel and then run a make world. I don't know if more would be required. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |