Re: [SLUG] Why do all mail servers suck? (Maildir + POP3)

["Andrew Reilly" <areilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 03:39:05PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> It seems odd that whilst almost everyone in "I don't have my own hosted
> domain" land require IMAP or POP3, just about all of the daemons operating
> with these protocols suck. On with the question...

I thought that the server daemons were really nice, but all the
IMAP _clients_ sucked...

> I'm quite impressed with the Courier IMAP server, and how Maildirs are
> running on my system, but I can't find any widely-used POP3 servers that
> like Maildirs.
> 
> The only option I know out of hand is qmail-pop3d. Anyone know where I can
> get the sources for just it? If there are other daemons to recommend, I'd
> love to hear about them too.

I'm using courier IMAPd alongside qmail, and that's fine.
Before I got Courier's imapd going I just used qmails
qmail-pop3d.  It worked perfectly.  What's the problem?  Doesn't
it compile without the rest of the qmail stuff?  What server are
you using with maildirs if not qmail?

-- 
Andrew