Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 12:42:04 +0600 From: Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com> To: George Sanders <gosand1982@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: limiting pop access to gmail servers ? Message-ID: <BANLkTikgQM=-d41dCCDPpO-xBHOOy%2BCEbw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <349555.87646.qm@web120019.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <349555.87646.qm@web120019.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:55 AM, George Sanders <gosand1982@yahoo.com> wrote= : > > > We run our own (freebsd) mail server. =C2=A0It's a pretty classic, old fa= shioned > /var/mail/username setup. > > We have enabled POP so that certain people can pop their mail from us, an= d use > gmail as their mail client. > > However, we have no other POP users ... and I don't want POP open to the = whole > world ... > > BUT, I suspect there are a LOT of possible IPs that google will use to po= p mail > from us ... > > Is there an authoritative list ? > > Anyone else blocking POP access to everyone BUT google ? Didn't try it myself, just a wild guess. Hopefully google pop clients use real ssl certificates signed by google to authenticate. Mutual ssl authentication is hardly ever used, but still. Setup pop over ssl and check for google certificates instead. Gleb.
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