Configuring the firewall for Leopard
Finlay Dobbie
finlay.dobbie at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 06:07:07 PDT 2007
On 29/10/2007, Alex Satrapa <grail at goldweb.com.au> wrote:
> On 30/10/2007, at 09:54 , Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>
> > Define "service".
>
> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/service
>
> See sense 6: the performance of duties or the duties performed as or
> by a waiter or servant; occupation or employment as a waiter or servant.
>
> A Unix service is the same thing. Thus IMAP in cleartext is one
> service, while IMAP over SSL is another service, in the same way that
> a buffet is one service provided by household help, where a dinner
> served on the lawn is a different service.
>
> Each entry in /etc/services defines a different network service.
So what about IMAP w/TLS on port 143?
-- Finlay
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