On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 09:38:00PM +0100, Guillaume Finance wrote:
> I've heard that someone tried to intrude a network by getting to the SMTP
> port of the EMail server (Linux / Exim) first to get then to an NT Server.
Unless there's a buffer overflow I've not heard of then I'm not quite
sure how this would work.
> Also I know that we can send faked email just by getting onto the SMTP port
> (via telnet) - does exim can prevent from this?
Nope, it's a function of the smtp specification, providing the
envelope information isn't rejected by your antu-relaying rules then
'faking' an email is trivial.
Mark
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