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popa3d - a tiny POP3 daemon

popa3d is a tiny POP3 daemon designed with security as the primary goal. You can read more about its design, check out the change log, or download a popa3d tarball (the latest stable version is recommended) and refer to the documentation inside.

Download:

popa3d 1.0.3 and its signature
popa3d 1.0.2 and its signature

These and older versions of popa3d, as well as related user-contributed files, are also available from the Openwall file archive. The source code of popa3d can be browsed on GitHub or via CVSweb.

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Commercial support for popa3d is available, please check out our services. We can help you install popa3d or even help you integrate it into an existing mail server and mail user database setup you might have. The latter might be a combination of our free software development and consulting services.

Contributed popa3d resources (note: we haven't audited any of these):

Packages:

FreeBSD port in the ports collection by Sergey Samoyloff
NetBSD pkgsrc package in the packages collection by Thomas Klausner
Debian package maintained by Krzysztof Krzyzaniak
Slackware package of popa3d
popa3d 0.6.3 src and i386 RPM for Red Hat Linux 7+ by Marcin Siennicki and Scarab

Related utilities:

A simple Perl script to add mail users by Tim van Erven

Patches (the popa3d 0.6+ patches should also apply to 1.0):

popa3d Maildir support by Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson and Cory Visi
popa3d name-based virtual domains by Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson
popa3d 1.0.2 MINIX 3 support by Pavel V Samsonov
ditto, context format diff to be applied on MINIX natively
popa3d 0.6.2+ hashed spool support by Damir Bikmuhametov
popa3d 0.5.9 "user mode" (for fetchmail's "plugin") by Maciek Pasternacki
popa3d 0.5.1 IPv6 support patch by Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
popa3d 0.5.1 MySQL + virtual domains hack by Ury
popa3d 0.4 Kerberos v4 (KPOP) authentication patch by Dug Song
popa3d 0.4 APOP authentication patch for OpenBSD by Dug Song
...made to work on non-OpenBSD by Denis Ducamp
popa3d 0.6.2/0.6.3 whoson support by Damir Bikmuhametov
popa3d 0.4 POP-before-SMTP patch (sendmail) by Garry Glendown
...updated to popa3d 0.6.4.1 and Berkeley DB 4 by Code Monkeyboy
popa3d 0.4 /etc/pop3.{allow,deny} support patch by Lukasz Luzar

The use of APOP is not recommended.
The preferred way to do POP-before-SMTP is via whoson.

Obsolete patches which are no longer needed with popa3d 0.5+:

popa3d 0.4 qmail $HOME/Mailbox patch by Marcin Siennicki
popa3d 0.4 fcntl(2) locking patch for Solaris by Thomas Klausner
popa3d 0.3 PAM patches for FreeBSD by farmer joe

popa3d is the default POP3 server on Owl, Slackware, and distributions by ALT Linux team. popa3d is also part of Debian GNU/Linux and Gentoo Linux. popa3d was integrated into OpenBSD versions 3.0 to 5.4.

popa3d is a registered project with Open Hub.

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