[CentOS] IMAP security

Fri Mar 28 17:27:09 UTC 2008
Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>

On Friday 28 March 2008 13:31:16 Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:50:08 +0000:
> > These, it seems, are outgoing packets.
>
> No, they are incoming. They have various sources and one destination and I
> suppose that's your server's IP. So they are incoming.
>
> > open relay,
>
> Relaying is SMTP. And you will see all sorts of connects on SMTP, too, but
> this doesn't mean they all are relay attempts ;-)
>
> I just read Ned's reply and recognize I missed that part "my router" of
> your message. It's indeed just your packet filter reporting that it
> forwarded a packet on port 143 as instructed.
>
That sounds nothing to worry about, then.  I'm in the learning process of 
separating the log messages that say 'bear this in mind' and those that 
say 'do something about this, quick' :-)

Anne


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