WTF?
Telnet has nothing to do with POP3. Comment out the telnet line in
inetd.conf.
If you need to filter port 110 that different, but it has nothing to do
with POP3.
Paul Farber
Farber Technology
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On Sun, 14 May 2000, Matthew wrote:
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> On Sun, 14 May 2000, Mark Lo wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to know how to disable telnet to port 110, but still
> > let my user to retrive mail via mail client at port 110?? (using
> > tcpserver)
> >
>
> with great difficulty i'm afraid. users will always be able to write
> their own program to cummunicate on port 110. even if u where to delete
> telnet they could just download a another copy.
> is their a good reason for doing this?
>
> if u're users are not very "knowlegeable" then u could get the telnet
> source code and stick in a line on code somewhere to check that the port
> parameter is not 110, if it is then just print something like
> "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused".
> this could prove confusing to your users!
> they could still use many other program such as nc.
>
> > Thank You
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
>
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