On 03/08/2013 11:18 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
On 03/08/2013 12:50 AM, Sebastian Grewe wrote:
Hey List,
I have been working on my Chef Cookbook for Qmailtoaster lately and
was working on minitests and noticed something strange:
/var/qmail/supervise/pop3 is missing. At first I thought my unit test
failed because I made a mistake but then realized there was no pop3
running at all.
/var/qmail/supervise/pop3-ssl does exist and works fine, my test user
could login and see the mails.
Has anyone noticed this with a fresh installation? Or am I missing
something here?
Cheers,
Sebastian
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I haven't noticed, but I haven't been in a situation lately where I
might notice. I'd like to make a few comments regarding pop3 though.
First is that while qmail-pop3d can handle TLS (IIRC), there's no way to
mandate that clients use a secure connection. This is a security hole
that is removed when only pop3-ssl is available.
Second, pop3 chores will be taken over by dovecot when dovecot is
formally integrated into the stock QMT. Dovecot will handle both imap
and pop3 processing, and can enforce secure connections so that
passwords aren't sent in the clear.
Many QMT operators already use dovecot, as it is far superior to courier
for IMAP processing. It's pretty simple to convert from courier to
dovecot, and there are some dovecot binary packages available in the QTP
repo which can be installed using yum, and are appropriately built and
configured for use with QMT. See the wiki for more details.
Thanks go to many community members who have helped to get dovecot
integrated with QMT. I hope we can complete the process sometime this
year so that dovecot is "stock", and courier is no more.
If you're interested in more about this, please join us on the
development list.
After reading this post, I see that the message could be interpreted
more than one way, and I'd like to clarify.
While I hope and expect that the devel list will become more active in
the future, I didn't mean to imply that this post was inappropriate for
this list.
I am (and I hope that others are) grateful to Sebastian for his
contributions. The software he's writing is leading edge stuff, people.
He's doing some of the groundwork I wish I had time to explore. I expect
his work will be part of QMT's future, one way or another.
Thanks, Sebastian.
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-Eric 'shubes'
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