Re: [fetchmail-users] Accessing user mailbox from another account

[Frederic M. <fre...@wo...>]

Ian Murphy wrote:
> Found a way of doing it. Both the pop3 and imap servers under MS
> exchange support a format of
>
> User		domain\privuser\mbx
> Passowrd	privuserpassword
>
> Which allows reading a users mailbox using the password of a privileged
> account - assuming the appropriate security has been setup in exchange.
>
> Mbx in this case is simply the user account name.
>   

I can't believe they did it ! It's silly to offer the opportunity to use 
a system user name and password to access a remote service... A 
dictionary attack on any pop3 or imap mailbox could yield a system 
password. Microsoft just never learn :-(

Well, at least, it solves your problem :-)

Frederic