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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 23:28:44 +0100
From: Michael Meyer <mime@....de>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: popa3d[28669]: Didn't attempt authentication

Mick wrote:
> The subject line appears in /var/log/messages once every 10 minutes on 
> my Redhat 7.3 based system.

where is the connection come from? 

> At the moment, there is only one user accessing the pop server on that 
> machine and I can see when he successfully authenticates and retrieves 
> his email. Other than that, no one else has a pop3 account on that 

i dont believe that this is a regular pop3-connection. perhaps, any kind of
misconfigured service in your LAN.

micha