BSD Ports

mail/popa3d-before-sendmail 1.0.3_1 DragonFly

Secure, performance, tiny POP3 daemon

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
Categories
mail
Package size
21.7 KiB, 42.4 KiB installed

Description

the popa3d goals

Is a POP3 daemon by Solar Designer.

Well, the goals themselves are obvious; they're probably the same for most other POP3 servers as well. It's their priority that differs. For popa3d, the goals are:

  1. Security (to the extent that is possible with POP3 at all, of course).
  2. Reliability (again, as limited by the mailbox format and the protocol).
  3. RFC compliance (slightly relaxed to work with real-world POP3 clients).
  4. Performance (limited by the more important goals, above).

This port is installed to be run from inetd, which is sufficient for normal usage. However, it is possible to build a stand-alone version, should you need better performance.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 1.0.3, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlymail/popa3d-before-sendmail1.0.3_1 newestnone known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDmail/popa3d-before-sendmail1.0.3_1 newestnone known-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDmail/popa3d-before-sendmail1.0.3_1 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDmail/popa3d-before-sendmail1.0.3_1 newestno data-[email protected]-

Install

Binary package:

pkg install popa3d-before-sendmail

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/mail/popa3d-before-sendmail && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.

Related ports

The same software or family in DragonFly: one homepage, or one name but for a version or a variant.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

1. Edit your /etc/inetd.conf to use popa3d. The line should look like this:

pop3	stream	tcp	nowait	root	/usr/local/libexec/popa3d   popa3d

Note: when started via an inetd clone, the logging of connections is left
up to that inetd clone or TCP wrappers.

2. Reload inetd

# /etc/rc.d/inetd reload

===>   NOTICE:

The popa3d-before-sendmail port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing