RE: AS/400 sending email

Leif:
Is port 25 open to the internet to the AS/400?  If so, then it is not very
hard to do.  If you send me the IP address or host name via private email,
I'd be happy to test this for you.
cjg

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Leif Svalgaard
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:24 AM
To: Midrange List Tech
Subject: AS/400 sending email


Hi Folks,
Curious thing happened last night.
My AS/400 (having an IP address for remote VPN access) sent out 1800 emails
at 1:30 am. This information comes to me from the "commutations guy" (not
me) that handles the network. 
1) nobody that I know of sent the emails
2) can one see a log or some such to investigate
3) the comm guy said "someone hacked in and used the AS/400
to send email". My reply: this is supposed to be hard to do.
Am I really correct, faced with the above evidence?

Thanks


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