Pulsar POP3 daemon

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• CVS Access
• Features
• Example configurations
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News:

2003/09/20

• 0.1.1 released
• Fixed numerous Maildir bugs
• Added APOP support
• pulsar_crypt can also calculate plain (not salted) md5 hashes (Usefull for APOP debugging)

2003/07/10

• 0.1.0 released
• added maildir support
• epm multiple package list file (rpm, deb, ...)
• error_facility now loggs application returned error string/rc and loggs exact point of error origin
• reactivated a build of pulsar_deliver
• enhancements to build system
• added md5hash as UIDL in Maildir mailstore
• updated pulsar.conf and pulsar_deliver man pages

2002/10/09

• 0.0.9 released
• updated pulsar.conf(5) man page
• FreeBSD logging fixes (logging using mail.info)
• IMP bugfix
• FreeBSD makefile fixes
• autoconf improvements
• MySQL password column defaults to 'plaintext' passwords if hash type is not specified.

2002/08/11

• 0.0.8 released
• fixed compile error in MySQL user authentication code
• ported to FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE

Mailing list:

There is a low traffic mailing list pulsar-users@lists.sourceforge.net for:

• technical support
• feature request
• bug-reports

CVS Access:

See this page for instructions how to access development CVS version. Version on CVS usualy compile without problems but most likely contain untested and/or experimental code.

Features:

• intuitive configuration file
• multiple authentication mechanisms
• PAM
• standard unix (transparent support for /etc/shadows, DES, MD5)
• file (custom file in /etc/passwd format)
• MySQL
• more is planned ...
• support for realms aka. virtual hosts
• user supplied
• based on listening interface (IP based)
• SSL encryption
• can run from xinetd, inetd or standalone
• supports tcp wrappers
• pulsar_crypt utility for creating password hashes
• pulsar_deliver utility for delivering mail to pulsar mailstore.

Example configurations:

• POP3 service with:
  • system users with PAM authentication
  • no SSL

  	debug = 2
  	auth_db = PAM
  	mailspool = /var/spool/mail:0600
  	mailspool_owner = :mail
  	inetd = no
  	realm_chars = ":;!"
  	listen_on = localhost:pop3,
          	    192.168.1.2:pop3
      

• POP3 service with:
  • system users with PAM authentication (default realm)
  • non-system users in a file database (realm "offsite")
  • non-system users in MySQL database (realm "offsite")
  • SSL

  	mysql "ID1" {
          	host = mysql_host
  	        user = mysql_user
  	        pass = mysql_pass
  	        db   = pop3_database
  
  	        table       = pop3_table
  	        user_column = pop3_username_column
  	        pass_column = pop3_password_column
  
  	        # the following settings are optional
  	        #homedir = pop3_homedir_column
  	        #uid     = pop3_uid_column
  	        #gid     = pop3_gid_column
  
  	        # an additional (and optional) criteria for select query
  	        #and = "AllowMail='allow'"
  	}
  
  	debug = 9
  	auth_db = PAM
  	mailspool = /var/spool/mail:0660
  	mailspool_owner = :mail
  	inetd = no
  	realm_chars = ":;!"
  	listen_on = localhost:pop3,
  	       	192.168.1.2
  	ssl_listen_on = localhost:pop3s,
                  192.168.1.2
  
  	certificate = /var/pulsar/cert.pem:/var/pulsar/key.pem
  
  	realm "offsite" {
  		realm_interface = 192.168.1.2:pop3
  		auth_db = file:/var/virtual/etc/test.passwd,
          	          mysql:ID1
  		mailspool = /var/virtual/var/spool/mail:0660
  		mailspool_owner = mail:mail
  	}
      

License:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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