popa3d-users - Re: Compile Problems

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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:16:23 +0000
From: Daniel Leite <dleite+popa3d@....pt>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Compile Problems

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:36:04 -0800
"Doug Jolley" <ddjolley@...mail.com> wrote:

> Although I'm an avid Slackware fan, it sure would be nice if they would go 
> to an RPM-based packaging system.

	please not!! 8)

	but you have also the source and patchs in the slackware ftp site,
	no need for the rpm

> it appears that Slackware didn't like the user 'popa3d' for some obscure 
> reason so they substituted their own.

	probably because the user pop already existed for a long time
	before pat started using popa3d
	as there is at least another pop3 daemon in the distro, renaming
	the user to popa3d would be a little too..err... unfair 8)

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