Perdition: Mail Retrieval Proxy

Perdition
I lately lost a preposition;
It hid, I thought, beneath my chair
And angrily I cried, "Perdition!
Up from out of under there."
Correctness is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I abhor,
And yet I wondered, "What should he come
Up from out of under for?"
Morris Bishop, contributed by Kfish

What is perdition?

Perdition is a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able to handle both SSL and non-SSL connections and redirect users to a real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular based database access. ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM, POSIX Regular Expression and NIS modules ship with the distribution. The API for modules is open allowing arbitrary modules to be written to allow access to any data store.
Perdition has many uses. Including, creating large mail systems where an end-user's mailbox may be stored on one of several hosts, integrating different mail systems together, migrating between different email infrastructures, and bridging plain-text, SSL and TLS services. It can also be used as part of a firewall. The use of perditon to scale mail services beyond a single box is discussed in high capacity email.

News

perdition 1.18 After a very long time since the release of 1.17 I'm very happy to announce the release of perdition 1.18.
There have been numerous changes since 1.17, perhaps the most significant being IPv6 support. The only change since 1.18-rc3 was a minor build fix.
A complete list of changes is available in the changelog provided by the Mercurial Repository.
Perdition 1.18 is available for download here.
27th November 2009

More Information

Download Released versions
Releases Historical information on releases
Mercurial Repository The latest development code
Please note that this is development code and is generally not recommended for production
Documentation Documentation on how to use perdition.
FAQ Perdition FAQ.
Mailing Lists perdition-users and perdition-cvs subscription and archive information
Press Centre Information for the press on perdition.
Deployments Information about some of perdition systems in production.
Perdition-PBS POP Before SMTP Tools
Vanessa Underlying libraries for Perdition

What is perdition?
Perdition is a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able to handle both SSL and non-SSL connections and redirect users to a real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular based database access. ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM, POSIX Regular Expression and NIS modules ship with the distribution. The API for modules is open allowing arbitrary modules to be written to allow access to any data store. Perdition has many uses. Including, creating large mail systems where an end-user's mailbox may be stored on one of several hosts, integrating different mail systems together, migrating between different email infrastructures, and bridging plain-text, SSL and TLS services. It can also be used as part of a firewall. The use of perditon to scale mail services beyond a single box is discussed in high capacity email.
News
perdition 1.18	After a very long time since the release of 1.17 I'm very happy to announce the release of perdition 1.18. There have been numerous changes since 1.17, perhaps the most significant being IPv6 support. The only change since 1.18-rc3 was a minor build fix. A complete list of changes is available in the changelog provided by the Mercurial Repository. Perdition 1.18 is available for download here. 27th November 2009
More Information
Download	Released versions
Releases	Historical information on releases
Mercurial Repository	The latest development code Please note that this is development code and is generally not recommended for production
Documentation	Documentation on how to use perdition.
FAQ	Perdition FAQ.
Mailing Lists	perdition-users and perdition-cvs subscription and archive information
Press Centre	Information for the press on perdition.
Deployments	Information about some of perdition systems in production.
Perdition-PBS	POP Before SMTP Tools
Vanessa	Underlying libraries for Perdition