[Savannah-register-public] [task #7910] Submission of tpop3d

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?7910>

                 Summary: Submission of tpop3d
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: arekm
            Submitted on: Monday 03/31/2008 at 11:10
         Should Start On: Monday 03/31/2008 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Thursday 04/10/2008 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


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= Registration Details =

* Name: *tpop3d*
* System Name:  *tpop3d*
* Type: non-GNU software & documentation
* License: GNU General Public License v2 or later

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==== Description: ====
tpop3d is a fast, extensible, secure UNIX POP3 server. `Extensible' is used
specifically in the context of new authentication mechanisms. Presently the
distribution contains auth-pam, which uses Linux-style Pluggable
Authentication Modules to mediate access of registered users of a machine to
their Unix-style mailboxes, auth-passwd for older Unix machines, and
auth-mysql, which works with vmail-sql or other MySQL-based solutions to
mediate access to virtual-domain email. auth-pgsql supplies similar
functionality for PostgreSQL. auth-ldap allows authentication of users against
an LDAP directory, and auth-flatfile uses files in the format of /etc/passwd.
In addition, there are two authenticators which are designed to allow easy
implementation of new authentication schemes without writing C code:
auth-other, which allows you to write an external program to communicate with
tpop3d via pipes; and auth-perl, which allows you to embed a perl interpreter
in tpop3d to authenticate users with custom perl code. tpop3d supports TLS/SSL
for encrypted communications. 

tpop3d makes POP-before-SMTP relaying easy, providing configurable hooks
which allow you to insert rows into a database, or call custom code either
running in an embedded perl interpeter or in an arbitrary external program
whenever a user is authenticated. The same facilities can be used to implement
POP3 server `bulletin' support. In addition, tpop3d can notify a DRAC
(`dynamic relay authentication control') or WHOSON server of logins. 

tpop3d supports traditional (BSD-format) mailspools and, thanks to the
efforts of Paul Makepeace, the maildir format of qmail. Location and type of
mailspools can be selected flexibly at run time using the configuration file.
There is also experimental support for index caching to improve performance
with BSD mailspools; this is in the latest version. Adding support for new
mailbox formats would be simple. 

tpop3d is portable to modern systems. It builds successfully `out of the box'
on Linux, modern BSD systems, Solaris and Mac OS X. The GNU autoconf mechanism
is used to configure and build tpop3d (thanks to Mark Longair for this
contribution), so should also build on other reasonable Unix systems. 

tpop3d is free software, available under the terms of the GNU GPL.


==== Other Software Required: ====
OPTIONAL dependencies:

gdbm, GPL 
mysql, GPL, http://www.mysql.com 
openldap, openldap public license, http://www.openldap.org 
openssl, apache-style license, http://www.openssl.org 
pam, gpl/bsd, http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ 
postgresql, bsd, http://www.postgresql.org 
whoson, public domain, http://whoson.sourceforge.net/


==== Other Comments: ====
Resubmitting (previously https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?7673)


==== Tarball URL: ====
http://carme.pld-linux.org/~arekm/tpop3d-new-20080122.tar.gz






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