Re: Sender Spoofing via SMTP

[Chris Moody <chris () siliconhotrod com>]

> I was not thinking about disabling the telnet on the client. I was under 
> the impression that the user was running a telnet server. As other 
> listers have pointed out, this is not the case. Several protocols such 
> as SMTP allow telnetting which is very useful during diagnostics.

Any TCP socket allows "telnetting".  If you have a daemon on a TCP port, 
you can telnet to it to check for a response.

Telnet is -not- the problem here.

-C