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imap
  • From: Patrick Mairif <moon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:11:42 +0100
  • Message-id: <20020214141142.D21859@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hello,

from /etc/inetd.conf:
# Imapd - Interactive Mail Access Protocol server
# Attention: This service is very insecure
# imap stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd imapd

What does this mean? Why is it insecure? Is there a secure way
to run
an imap-server?

patrick!
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