[dovecot] Re: dovecot and pop3

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 16:59, Paul C. Bryan wrote:
> Dear dovecotters:
> 
> I'm becoming interested in dovecot as a replacement for UW-IMAPD. Any 
> project that claims it's the "postfix of ____ servers" deserves a looksee.
> 
> If indeed I were to going to switch at some point, I'd need to replace 
> the UW POP3 server (which is a part of the UW package). I would prefer 
> one that actually used the dovecot IMAP server instead of going to the 
> filesystem directly.
> 
> Question 1: Anyone know of such a POP3 daemon that connects to the IMAP 
> server.

not aware of one, no.

> 
> Question 2: If the answer to Q1 is "no", would anyone be interested in 
> such a package?

I think it would be a good idea to duplicate the functionality of uw-'s
imap - though my general view is pop3 should be beaten profusely :)

-sv

 

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