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Re: Qmail vas Sendmail



Hi,

On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:

> > Qmail is an SMTP server, like Sendmail (MTA I believe they are called -
> > am i right?) It doesn't have (almost) anything to do with POP3 (or IMAP)
> > etc. which is a different program.
> 
> Accidentally, qmail has it's own pop3 daemon - qmail-pop3d.

which works with the maildir format only.

> > 
> > Try Qpopper for a good POP3 server.
> 
> Try not to try qpopper if you care for security of your site, at least
> until current wave of qpopper's buffer overflows will settle down and they
> would audit their code.

Try using the non-exec stack kernel patch. If run from inetd (i.e.  it's
being executed every session) with patch installed, qpopper is safe enough
for you. 

Shachar Tal
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