Am 2008-06-24 10:31:12, schrieb Kyle Wheeler:
> Unlikely. More likely, your server has implemented IMAP-before-SMTP,
> which means anyone from your IP address can send email via SMTP
> without a username or password. It's not that it's figuring out what
> your username and password are, it's that successful logins to your
> IMAP server probably put your IP address on a whitelist that your SMTP
> server uses.
Does this work only with Linux Clients or under Windows too?
Hmmm, there are inteligent Viriis and Trojans which use the SMTP relay
of ones provider... and if he/she connect successfuly to IMAP, the
Viriis or Trojans can spam the world "legaly"...
Not very usefull in my eyes.
> for each is absolutely necessary, I just implemented IMAP-before-SMTP.
> The devil is in the details, and there are some drawbacks to this kind
> of policy (which I can get into, but is probably offtopic of this
> list), but it's a common-enough setup that I wouldn't be surprised if
> your server does it.
The thing above?
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
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