On 05/09/07, FRLinux <frlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/5/07, Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin at ul.ie> wrote:
> > I firewalled port 110 because there is no reason for any external
> > access to it. I didn't shut down the service because I haven't
> > confirmed (yet) that it doesn't serve some internal function.
> If it ever gets used internally, I would suggest switching to pop3-ssl.
Just out of curiousity - if it is a purely internal function, why
would you use pop3-ssl?
Thomas
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