Incoming IMAP Hackers?

[chris at idlelion.net]

From: Manuel Arostegui Ramirez <manuel at todo-linux.com>

> On Monday 18 June 2007 17:06:31 chris at idlelion.net wrote:
>> But I cannot think of a reason someone would want access to IMAP 
>> accounts. What purpose would this serve?
>>
>> Chris
>
>I guess...to spam from your network :-)

But they can't send with IMAP. They have to send with SMTP. So they must 
think they can guess the account details and use those for outgoing mail 
too. Sneaky.

Of course, I suppose one COULD set up different passwords for incoming and 
outgoing e-mail. What a pain.

Thanks guys.