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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.

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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:

Related utilities:

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

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 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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