RE: [SLUG] mail server.

From: R P Herrold (herrold@owlriver.com)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 14:39:09 EST


On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Jeff Barriault wrote:

> I have a question. I have a RedHat 7.1 server on my network at 192.168.0.22
> with Samba services running. How would I set it up to allow me to IMAP into
> my root account and retrieve my e-mail from my Windows 2000 workstation
> using Outlook?

MAJOR SECURITY HOLE outlined above:

This exposes the root password every retrieval

All root mail should be forwarded to an end user account --
indeed, forwarding it off box is even better.

-- Russ Herrold



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