[Dovecot] Dovecot security

2013-08-14 Thread Jay Khashan
Hi, THIS IS URGENT I have Debian Linux machine which I installed as a mail server with postfix, and dovecot. my mail server is setup to use SMTP relay. I currently have ports 143, 995, 25 SSMTP ports open. in the last few days I have been under attack where email is being sent to fake email

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot security

2013-08-14 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Jay Khashan jkhas...@msn.com: Hi, THIS IS URGENT I have Debian Linux machine which I installed as a mail server with postfix, and dovecot. my mail server is setup to use SMTP relay. I currently have ports 143, 995, 25 SSMTP ports open. in the last few days I have been under attack

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot security

2013-08-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 06:12:02AM +, Jay Khashan wrote: Hi, THIS IS URGENT I have Debian Linux machine which I installed as a mail server with postfix, and dovecot. my mail server is setup to use SMTP relay. I currently have ports 143, 995, 25 SSMTP ports open. in the last few

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot security

2013-08-14 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:17:12 +0100 Darac Marjal articulated: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 06:12:02AM +, Jay Khashan wrote: Hi, THIS IS URGENT I have Debian Linux machine which I installed as a mail server with postfix, and dovecot. my mail server is setup to use SMTP relay. I

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot security with IPv6

2011-06-27 Thread SM
At 01:23 23-06-2011, KÄrlis Repsons wrote: particular services, please give me your opinion if it's insecure to have a dovecot server, which is accessed through a public IPv6 address... If you do not consider it as secure to run a Dovecot server on a public IPv4 address, the same applies for

[Dovecot] dovecot security with IPv6

2011-06-23 Thread Kārlis Repsons
Hi Timo, hi all others! In fact, I've only read one person claiming that IPv6 support opens up too many backdoors [1], but anyway, as I intend to run just particular services, please give me your opinion if it's insecure to have a dovecot server, which is accessed through a public IPv6 address...

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot security with IPv6

2011-06-23 Thread Willie Gillespie
On 06/23/2011 02:23 AM, Kārlis Repsons wrote: Hi Timo, hi all others! In fact, I've only read one person claiming that IPv6 support opens up too many backdoors [1], but anyway, as I intend to run just particular services, please give me your opinion if it's insecure to have a dovecot server,

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot security with IPv6

2011-06-23 Thread Noel Butler
That clown is a tad over paranoid... The only real issue with devices using ipv6 is that most people become relaxed with security, preferring with ipv4 to do it all on the NAT box, with ipv6 there is no NAT, so if you have 5 machines, you need to configure full security on all. If you're an