[imp] IMP Abuse (was Howto remove client IP-Address)

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Dec 18 22:19:08 UTC 2007


Quoting Joseph Brennan <brennan at columbia.edu>:

>
> Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:
>
>> . . .  Be sure to add some tracking informations if you want to be able
>> to find out e.g. who spammed through your webmail (we've had some nigerian
>> spammers hacking accounts and spamming last month)
>
> This is an important topic for IMP users.
>
> We've had IMP abuse as well, for what purports to be a British Lotto,
> and we've been on the receiving end of the same kind of spam from other
> IMP and Squirrelmail installations.
>

I'm curious to know if you redirect to https?  I did this after being 
compromised on http while I was using the account and haven't had an 
issue since.  Also watch-out using POP and having the same password on 
your POP as your IMAP.  POP authentication is clear text.

Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
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