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RE: [cobalt-users] Port 25 email via telnet exploit
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Port 25 email via telnet exploit
- From: "Peter Masloch" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Jun 4 09:35:00 2002
- Organization: EasyniX Consulting
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
One has to wonder sometimes how some ppl accomplish
to administer a server.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Jacobs
>Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 12:10 PM
>To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Port 25 email via telnet exploit
>
>
>At 09:00 AM 6/4/2002, you wrote:
>>people seem to be confusing telnet as an application with
>opening a TCP
>>connection. It just so happens that by issuing the telnet command
>>followed by a port tumber it will open a TCP connection to that
>>destination port. That is how SMTP works, all mail servers allow this
>>or SMTP would not work. Being an open relay is a completely different
>>issue.
>
>Please explain to us how, no don't this thread is now dead to me....
>
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