Rip Toren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems to me it has just become more obscure. The real problem seems
> to be the server on port 25 accepting the mail for forwarding. That
It has to; that's what its there for. However, the difference is it accepting
mail for YOU, and accepting mail for someone else, relayed by you without your
knowledge.
> input could come from a perl script, a telnet, or a custom program as
In order for that to happen, you would have to run those programs yourself.
That's quite a different thing from someone causing your software to do it for
them. If someone can cause your computer to do things for them without your
approval, that IS a security problem, no matter what software we're talking
about.
As for the original issue: it would be nice to see the impetus for changes
like this in Mozilla, but by the same token, if you put a webserver on the
port belonging to another well-known service, you're asking for trouble in
the first place, and shouldn't be surprised when you get it.
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