POP is generally done on port 110. don't know what this mail ck is gonna be
unless it's some sort of mua... like biff or something.... <Shrug>
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Dennis Soper wrote:
> /etc/services says:
>
> re-mail-ck 50/tcp # Remote Mail Checking Protocol
> re-mail-ck 50/udp # Remote Mail Checking Protocol
>
> I found RFC 1339 which describes the remote mail protocol for UDP --
> presumably it's been extended to TCP without the benefit of an RFC.
>
> http://sunsite.auc.dk/RFC/rfc/rfc1339.html
>
> It sounds to me like you'd be listening on port 50 if you were running
> a POP server, and it also sounds like it's be a handy way for spammers
> to test guessed email addresses (though they'd have to use it a lot,
> not twice a day).
>
> --
> K<bob>
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