alternate pop auth scheme, not APOP

["Markus Stausberg" <markus@infolytics.com>]

Hi List,

during (part of) the weekend i was configuring email service in a 
LAN and came upon setting up a central pop server. 
I dont want to use APOP auth, because not all of the clients can 
say that word (e.g. kmail, as of slink), but is it true that the only 
alternative is to store a worthy login passwd at every client's mail 
reader (retyping is unbearable.) ?
Is there a pop server which just uses an other passwd database for 
USER/PASS auth than "/etc/passwd" or "/etc/shadow" (sth like 
"/etc/pop_passwd" )?
Do I really have to modify and recompile srcs to accomplish this ?

 
 
Markus Stausberg
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