On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:08:36 -0400 Adam Moffett <adamlist@???> wrote:
> Just a little warning about spammer's trickery.
> Apparently I've relayed 250,000 or so spam emails this month.
> We had a user named "test" with a password of "test"...the account
> belonged to a real customer, and the spammer(s) were authenticating as
> this user.
Ralsky (famous spammer) is know to be brute forcing passwords for
SMTP AUTH systems. you should be using passwords as "real" as
you would use for any other system.
richard
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