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#! rnews 2450 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!newshub1.home.com!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!saluki-news.it.siu.edu!slip106.termserv.siu.edu From: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: POP3 Servers - Best Of Breed? Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 14:45:07 CST Organization: Southern Illinois University Lines: 32 Sender: NNTP@slip106.termserv.siu.edu Message-ID: <248e8670.u9t27e.208d9@slip106.termserv.siu.edu> Reply-To: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: slip106.termserv.siu.edu Comment: AmigaNOS v2.9p In-Reply-To: <33999954.7BD4@tundraware.com> (from Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com>) (at Sat, 07 Jun 1997 17:24:36 +0000) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42613 Hi Tim, on Jun 07 you wrote: > I am a long-time FreeBSD site. I expect to need a POP3 server in the > next month or so. Of the various POP3 servers in the ports list, which > is best by these criteria: > > 1) Rock solid, stable code. Can run 24 hours a day under medium to heavy > load (50-75 clients max.) > > 2) Easy to install, easy to administer We use IPOP3D that comes with the IMAP distribution from the University of Washington, on campus: 15,000+ mailboxes, somewhere around your max (concurrent) load. We even added a few source lines to do Kerberos password validation. If it all possible, I would suggest an IMAP server + IMAP clients (not just Pine, though that will work). Too many users get large notes and their client-end times out. Eudora < V1.5 has no way to adjust for this. Users also have to wait for ALL of the (new) mail to be downloaded before they can do anything with it. For only a couple of notes, this won't matter but for larger volume, especially via dial-up connections, it could matter a lot. Most of the Web browsers are coming out with IMAP support, though it may still be beta as of this date. A number of the "major" E-mail clients are either including IMAP support or are moving towards that direction. There are several IMAP clients available for all platforms such as Mail-Drop for Mac's and Sun's Solstice whatever for Windows (both free). At any rate, IPOP3D has been stable for over two years, running 24x7, albeit on an AIX/RS6000 machine.