Re: long user names for POP mailboxes
On Tuesday 17 June 97, at 11 h 12, the keyboard of "Al Youngwerth"
<alberty@apexxtech.com> wrote:
> Here's my setup: smail 3.2.3, fetchmail 3.9.8 and the standard in.pop3d
> that comes with Debian.
Drop it. Last time I checked (can anyone confirm this is still the
case?), this thing didn't even log the attempted logins with wrong
passwords. A cracker could use it to try every guessable password on your
site. Use qpopper instead (available as a Debian package).
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