Re: POP3 server
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 04:04:23PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.3.96.990623171301.12463B-100000@kek.zold.net>,
> Varga Robert <robi@politext.hu> wrote:
> >don't use qpopper version <2.51 since it has security holes in it.
> >
> >there is a qpopper 2.3 debian package in stable, contact the maintainer to
> >know whether it has fixes to close the sechole, if it is not fixed, then
> >try to use the unstable.
>
> Ofcourse it was fixed. You don't think debian would distribute a qpopper
> package with known r00t security holes in it for over a year do you ...
>
> Most of the 2.4 and early 2.5 qpopper packages had a license
> that made it impossible to include it with Debian, so Debian shipped
> with a fixed 2.3 instead.
>
Now with latest version (2.53) license has changed so now it's possible to
distribute latest version of qpopper with Debian. Just take a look at
potato.
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