Sure, that's the "magic of open source software"--any sick joe like me can turn
an imap client into a port scanner. All it takes is the source and some love.
Sure, people detect that there's an incoming message, but if you do it right,
they just think that it's a misconfigured mail client.
"Patrick R. Wade" wrote:
> Hm, i bet there are IMAP clients that can be made to attempt other ports than
> the well-known one for their connection ; so you could do a sort of port scan
> by launching your IMAP client at various ports in numerical order and then
> watching what the error messages are...
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It's a shame that a family can be torn apart
by something as simple as wild dogs.
