Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

[Dave McMurtrie]

Alain Williams wrote:

> That got me thinking ....
> I rate limit ssh connections to try to prevent dictionary attacks (3 attempts/3 minutes/IP address).
> If I were to do the same with IMAP would that cause problems with some clients,
> ie are there some clients that to many connect/disconnects ?

Webmail is the first one that comes to mind.

Thanks,

Dave
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Dave McMurtrie, SPE
Email Systems Team Leader
Carnegie Mellon University,
Computing Services