On Mon, Dec 08, 2008, Mohan wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I find some times strange logs in logwatch mail especially under the pam
>field
Perhaps somebody is trying a dictionary attack against the IMAP
or POP server. Everybody knows to look for probes against sshd,
but may forget that the crackers can also try to find working
user accounts and passwords by probing the mail servers.
Bill
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