hi ya "mad"
On Tue, 8 May 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Alvin Oga (on Tue, 08 May 2001 12:38:33PM -0700): > > if you can telnet into the machine... > > at port 110, you can probably login on the telnet/ssh port ??? > > do what? think about this again. what if your POP3 server is a windoze > machine??? true... i dont deal with nt's as servers... telnet sucks on nts... > > - i think that if one were using insecure pop3, they > > might as well allow you to telnet/ssh in.... > > ( your already have a login account ) > > almost correct. POP3 is a joke and if you POP3 into a machine on which > you have a shell account, you are stupid (or using windoze). > alternatives are SSH tunnels, local checking, or SSL POP3. true... insecure pop3 is bad... as used by the majority of pop3 users and good that you use pop3... i dont use or allow pop3.... ftp/telnet is NOT allowed either ( unconditionally disallowed from the outside.... ( even internally...depends on how paranoid they wanna be... have fun linuxing alvin > > if so, ssh in as a regular user, > > run elm/pine locally on the server and delete the emails ... > > - send/reply to the emails from the server > > of set up an SSH tunnel and check your mail against that. > > i personally used the latter until i installed sslwrap and now i have > port 995 open for POP3 over SSL. > > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > scintillation is not always identification for an auric substance. >
