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authorBill Fenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org>1997-11-16 09:19:19 +0000
committerBill Fenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org>1997-11-16 09:19:19 +0000
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A fast and robust implementation of the RFC1939 POP3 protocol.
It supports both BSD-type and SysV-type mailbox formats. Cucipop
assumes that the mailbox it serves is not simultaneously accessed
-by a mailreader. Concurrency and locking issues are handled
+by a mailreader. Concurrency and locking issues are handled
graciously if they restrict themselves to the mail delivery agent.
-Feature summary for cucipop:
- + It's fast (optimised for frequently polling POP3 clients)
- + It's less filling (i.e. small)
- + Does not use *any* temporary files (which also means that the
- startup time is spectacularly short, and there can never be
- any stale temporary files or doubled mailboxes)
- + It can therefore serve *any* size mailbox without requiring
- additional storage beyond what the file already occupies
- + A fully compliant, all frills attached, RFC1939 implementation of
- the POP3 protocol
- + This means that it supports APOP *and* UIDL
- + It includes the option to sabotage the UIDL command (to defeat
- undesirable "Leave mail on server" clients)
- + It also supports an optional autodelete mechanism, so that any
- RETReived message is automatically deleted
- + Autoadaptive, simply start it and it will know if it has been
- started from inetd or as a standalone daemon
- + Security conscious, i.e. the APOP support, already has hooks
- for shadowpasswords, and defeats password guessers by an adaptive
- verification delay
- + Supports both BSD and SysV (Content-Length) mailbox formats
- + Native support for /var/spool/mail/b/a/bar type mailspools
- + Is the only popd to perform reliable mailbox locking across
- NFS as well (it uses the same excellent and proven locking
- algorithms as does procmail)
- + Provides flexible logging of statistics and auditing events
- + Does not impose *any* limits on line lengths, mail length,
- or the use of any character (any 8-bit character, including '\0' is
- allowed) in the mail
- + Secure system mailbox handling
- + Has hooks to ease moving the mailboxes to any location you'd like
- + Has hooks for other authentication schemes (e.g. Radius)
- + Has hooks to virtualise the popserver
- + It runs on any POSIX and ANSI C compliant system
- + Is clock skew immune (e.g. in the case of NFS mounted mailboxes)
-
- Igor
igor@zynaps.ru