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author | Bill Fenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-11-16 09:19:19 +0000 |
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committer | Bill Fenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-11-16 09:19:19 +0000 |
commit | 3deca00c7cdace3471fa35a8bcd6cffce771e791 (patch) | |
tree | 006bc5c29821efa2a71a9f2d5c072506e125cc8e /mail/cucipop/pkg-descr | |
parent | 84713da4225d17c1b80f726505add3ba02d71f96 (diff) |
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diff --git a/mail/cucipop/pkg-descr b/mail/cucipop/pkg-descr index cfcf07005f6c..e02fe807eb55 100644 --- a/mail/cucipop/pkg-descr +++ b/mail/cucipop/pkg-descr @@ -1,44 +1,8 @@ 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 |