From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 6 10:17:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12FCB14BD7 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:17:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA05144; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:17:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:17:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: Paulo Fragoso Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IMAP or QPOPPER In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Paulo Fragoso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm thiking put IMAP4 server and its ipop3d in my mail server. Are there > any security problems with imap-4.5? I've used qpopper since the begin and > I would like to listen some opinions about IMAP :-) You might want to check out the bugtraq archives at http://www.securityfocus.com/ on IMAP problems and make sure that you are properly secured. I've run IMAP for over a year and never had a problem with it, but I do have it heavily firewalled. I get on average two unauthorized connections to that port a week, but they don't get anywhere thanks to ipfw. Good luck, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message