[Gllug] POP3 server

[Jonathan Dye]

At 15:03 28/11/01 -0000, you wrote:
>I know this is nto directly linux related, but i should imagine 
>the program(s) would be the same on bsd, what im trying to do is 
>to give my friends their own pop3 mailbox on my server, which i 
>have done, by making accounts for them on the server itself, but 
>as they will never need to login to the shell, i dont 
>particularly want to have all these accounts, 
You can always set thier shells to be /dev/false and then they can't log in
but you can still use all the quota stuff to restrict mailbox size.

>so i was wondering, 
>is there a pop3 server program that i can run, where i can just 
>create pop3 mailbox accounts only? so say i have user "fred" i 
>dont want to give him a full account on my box, i just want him 
>to have a pop3 account.
I think cyrus does it but I've not used it.  I'm sure someone else can
confirm or deny.

JD

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