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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!nntp.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Which pop3d Server? Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 02:27:37 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3281B998.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <327F46DB.57D@cococo.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: kelley@cococo.net Kelley wrote: > 1. What is the best pop server to use? Most people seem quite happy with Qualcomm's popper. It's in the FreeBSD ports collection (http://www.freebsd.org/ports) under mail/popper > 2. More than a few have user names longer than 8 characters, I have read > where you can recompile the kernel to allow for user names greater in You need to change UT_NAMESIZE in /usr/src/include/utmp.h and MAXLOGNAME in /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h, then do a `make world' in /usr/src before bringing the machine into service. Then populate your password file and open the gates. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project