Chapter 14: Mail Vulnerabilities
1. What does SMTP stand for and what does it do?
2. What does IMAP stand for and what is it for?
3. What is the POP (or POP3) protocol and what is it for?
4. What is the most common cause of SMTP server vulnerability?
5. What is the most common e-mail vulnerability (or complaint)?
6. What e-mail client has the largest install base?
7. Who makes the Thunderbird e-mail client?
8. What is an e-mail and messaging server from Microsoft?
9. Name a messaging server from IBM.
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.
10. Phishing is a common threat to mail system. True or False?
11. ______ POP mail cannot be stored on the server after downloading it.
12. ______ IMAP mail is stored on a server to be retrieved and read from any Internet-connected
computer.
13. ______ Viruses leave a local computer through POP mail, so POP should be disabled.
14. ______ In Thunderbird’s Inbox, e-mails are stored in one long file, called INBOX.
Match the following port numbers with the protocols below.
a. 465 d. 143
b. 995 e. 110
c. 25 f. 993
15. ________ SMTP e-mail server
16. ________ POP3 e-mail server
17. ________ IMAP(4) e-mail server
18. ________ SMTPS wsmtp protocol over TLS|SSL
19. ________ IMAPS SSL encrypted IMAP
20. ________ SPOP SSL encrypted POP