Summary popd - DU4.0E which one should I use.

[kcriss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kevin Criss)]

     [Summary] popd - DU4.0E which one should I use?
     
     Well the over night crew finally came in.  I received six responses, 
     two responses on the same day, and four more came in from over night.  
     The following people responded.
     
        Frank Wortner <frank@xxxxxxxxxxx>
        Thomas Peruzzi <thomas.peruzzi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
        LARRY.CLEGG@xxxxxxx  
        Keith Piepho <kap@xxxxxxxxxx>
        Nikola Milutinovic <Nikola.Milutinovic@xxxxxxxx>
        Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
     
     No one recomends using the Rand Mail Handler which comes with DU4.0E.  
     I had (5) votes for Qpopper and (2) votes for IMAPd.  (5) + (2) = (6) 
     because somebody voted twice. :)
     
     I think I will investigate the IMAPd suggestion further before I make 
     my decision on Qpopper.  http://www.washington.edu/imap
     Below you will find a quote from the University of Washington 
     concerning IMAPd.
     
     ftp://ftp.CAC.Washington.EDU/mail/imap.vs.pop.brief  
     "The purpose of this paper is to briefly consider the Internet-based 
     protocols: POP (Post Office Protocol), DMSP (Distributed Mail System 
     Protocol), and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol).  Of the three, 
     POP is the oldest and consequently the best known.  DMSP is largely 
     limited to a single application, PCMAIL, and is known primarily for 
     its excellent support of "disconnected" operation. IMAP offers a 
     superset of POP and DMSP capabilities, and provides good support for 
     all three modes of remote mailbox access: offline, online, and 
     disconnected.  (See RFC-1733 for definitions.)"
     
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     [Quotes from the respondents, but not in any particular order]
     
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     "The MH version of the pop daemon will be "retired" after 5.0 -- at 
     least that's what the 5.0 release notes say.  The replacement "... is 
     an implementation based on Qualcomm's public domain POP3 service known 
     as popper."  Looks like popper is the choice for the future.
     
     I'm not sure what you mean by "good for C2."  If you are looking for a 
     pop daemon modified to work with DEC's (oops,  I mean Compaq's) 
     security setup, then a good source is the one on 
     http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/IAS/qpop2.3.tar.Z.  There are others 
     there, but that's the one I've personally used on 4.0D running C2.  
     The nice thing about these bits of modified source code is that 
     compiled correctly,  the same binary will work without change under 
     both "normal" and C2 security."
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     "We use the qpopper because it is free and you have a lot of 
     possibilities to configure, like running popper not via inetd but as a 
     daemon, which looks good for heay load pop-servers. Another nice 
     feature of qpop is the ability of hashed-mail-spool files. We are 
     running a pop-server for about 1000 users with the qpopper and we do 
     not have any problems."
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     "I'd drop the Rand thing and go with the Qualcomm QPopper - we use it 
     here and it works great.  We've actually extended it to use our own 
     in-house authentication server rather than the Unix username/password 
     databases."
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     "We use qpopper.  It is not difficult to configure, even with C2 
     security, and it is free.  The source tree contains a "configure" 
     script to be run before a "make", and ./configure --enable-specialauth
     make configures the package for C2 security and compiles.  I have 
     never used MH or IAS, so I do not have any basis of comparison, but 
     qpopper works fine for us.  Make sure you use at least 2.53, as older 
     versions had security problems."
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     "IAS has three solutions. QPopper is the default. It also has Cyrus 
     IMAP and UW IMAP, which have POP3 daemons included."
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     "Try the University of Washington IMAPd which comes with a good POP-2 
     and POP-3 server. See ftp.CAC.Washington.EDU which is where it comes 
     from."
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     [Q]  popd - DU4.0E which one should I use?
     
     Hi, I am thinking about configuring popd.  I don't know which one to 
     use.  The freeware CD has Qpopper, a popd daemon from Qualcomm and 
     4.0E ships with the Rand Mail Handler another variant of popd.
     
     I find the Rand Mail Handler which comes with Tru64 4.0E has already 
     been installed on my system but not yet configured.  I hear this 
     variant of popd may not ship with True64 5.0 or that it will soon be 
     depreciated.  What is the scoop on this?  I hear the Rand MH is good 
     for C2 security and O'Reilly has a really thick book on it.  
     http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/mh/index.htm  I like O'Reilly books.  
     
     I also hear Qpopper was not good for C2 security but was easier to use 
     when C2 was not an issue.  www.eudora.com/freeware/qpop_faq.html  I 
     like things that are easier to use.
     
     I do not have IAS which is Compaq's Internet Application Server suite. 
     I don't think I can afford IAS but then I don't know how much it costs 
     either?  What does IAS do?  What flavor of popd ships with that 
     package?  
     
     [Q]  SO if I am low on money, which one should I configure, Rand MH or
     Qpopper?