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Re: anyone seen this in maillog?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Mon Nov 30 14:02:05 1998

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:57:11 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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Ed Lazor wrote:
> 
> If it's a hacker attack, is there a way to protect against it?

Yes indeed.  See http://www.cert.org/advisories/index.html

It is not likely you are employing the imap server, so you could
disable it in /etc/inetd.conf by commenting out the line that
calls it.

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