What would be a good POP daemon to use? I know there are a few in the mail ports. Are they any good? What I mean by good is 'secure as possible' (is there really such thing as being totally secure / invulnerable?) Cheers
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:03:01AM -0700, Dave wrote:> > What would be a good POP daemon to use? I know there are a few in the > mail ports. Are they any good?I use the popd associated with qmail, FWIW. Qmail unto itself has a great track record for reliability and security.> What I mean by good is 'secure as possible' (is there really such thing as > being totally secure / invulnerable?) > > Cheers-- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA BSD admin/developer at large
Dave writes:> What would be a good POP daemon to use? I know there are a few in the > mail ports. Are they any good?This question is impossible to answer. :-) "Hey! You have CD's! Are any of them any good?" "Of course they are! That's why I bought them??!"> What I mean by good is 'secure as possible' (is there really such thing as > being totally secure / invulnerable?)You need to help folks when asking very open questions like this. 1) What is your threat model? a) What are you trying to protect? b) How badly do your attackers want this? c) How much can you afford for resources to thwart this? 2) What research have you already done? a) You should have knowlege of a set of features and be asking about those. b) you should already know which are blatantly _not_ suitable and why. 3) Why does this question not belong in newbies@/questions@? The use of the word "secure" is not enough. Without pre-empting the above, you won't get useful answers. It's like asking "What car should I get?", without disclosing that you are a family man, and that a Ferrari is useless compared with an RV. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Dave wrote:> What I mean by good is 'secure as possible' (is there really such thing as > being totally secure / invulnerable?)Yes. It's called "not connected to the network, in a bomb-shelter, with an emergency generator, with plenty of fuel". -Mitch
Have a look at: http://www.openwall.com/popa3d/DESIGN.shtml ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" <mudman@metafocus.net> To: <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 8:03 PM Subject: POP daemon> > What would be a good POP daemon to use? I know there are a few in the > mail ports. Are they any good? > > What I mean by good is 'secure as possible' (is there really such thing as > being totally secure / invulnerable?) > > Cheers > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to"freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"> >