Suresh Ramasubramanian forced the electrons to say:
> > can u suggest some other package that is more secure ?
> for pop3 use gnu-pop3d or freebsd's solid pop3d
> for imap use cyrus or courier (both use maildirs though)
I have been using Solid POP3 and Courier IMAP with excellent results.
The only shortcoming of Solid POP3 is that it does not support POP
over SSL (that is, I couldn't find any reference to that). Courier
works fine over SSL. Extremely reliable software, both. And no known
security issues to date.
Courier supports only maildirs, Solid supports both maildirs and mbox.
BTW, I don't think Cyrus supports maildirs. It has its own mailbox
format, designed as a kind of database.
If you are using procmail as local MDA, then the mailbox/maildir format
issue doesn't really matter - procmail can deliver to either format
transparently. And pine and mutt nowadays support both. Maildirs are
recommended when your mail spool is on NFS - DJB says maildirs are
completely NFS safe. But if there is a lot of mail traffic, then with
maildirs, one day you *might* run out of inodes.
To be fair, Courier has some issues with Outlook, in particular, with
the IMAP NAMESCAPE capability/extension - and the author asks Microsoft
to actually read the RFCs before trying to implement them. :-)
Binand
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