Snowbox For Linux

Snowbox is a straightforward and easy-to-use POP3 server written in Perl. It can be set up in a couple of minutes and doesn't rely on editing dozens of files scattered around various configuration directories.

Despite its simplness it's a full featured POP3 server. See the feature list below. It won the "Open Source Jahrbuch" hacking contest, a programming contest where code with a maximum of 500 lines could be submitted. You can download the book and the article that mentiones Snowbox for free.

Since it runs from inetd Snowbox is not a high performance POP3 server. However, it is certainly enough for most common use cases and the ideal solution for smaller sites that want a simple and easy to use server.

Run "make install" in the distribution directory. This will install the Snowbox executable in /usr/local/sbin and create an initial config directory /etc/snowbox. This directory will contain two files: "config", the global configuration file for snownews, and "user.auth" which contains the users allowed to connect to the server. These files will never be overwritten if they already exist.

The configuration is pretty much self explanatory. See the manpage for more details about what can be done.