Thanks Darin. So I'm pretty sure this is a known password to the
world. This may be off topic for the IMail forum, but I think I
should share it to keep others from making the mistake I did.
I converted a couple of IMail domains over to SmarterMail taking the
"root" account in each domain with it. This account maybe disabled in
IMail, but when you convert it over to SmarterMail the account gets
enabled. I didn't even think about it at the time. Just this
morning I noticed the volume on the mail server was really up. I was
catching over 1000 viruses an hour (my usual virus volume on this
server is about 10 per day). My root accounts had been
compromised. You cannot just disable the account in SmarterMail, you
must change the password of the account. There is a bug in Smarter
Mail that will still let a user send mail even if the account is
disabled. One good thing was that because almost all the SPAM that
was being sent was some virus/phishing scam, ClamAv caught them and
looks like it deleted the email before it left the server.
Just thought I'd pass this on.
Thanks,
Mike
At 10:52 AM 2/9/2007, you wrote:
I'm not sure, but I would try "password". That is what is set by default
when adding a new user, if no password is specified. I checked by
decrypting the root password on one of our domains and it was also
"password".
Darin.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Graveen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 11:19 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Is there a default password for the root account?
I apologize if this has been asked in the past, but I couldn't find
the answer in the archives. Does the "root" account in every domain
in IMail have a default password? I know the account is disabled by
default, but I was just curious if there was a default password or is it
blank?
Thanks,
Mike
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