POP3

PORT    STATE SERVICE REASON         VERSION
110/tcp open  pop3    syn-ack ttl 63 JAMES pop3d 2.3.2
Service Info: Host: solidstate

110,995 - Pentesting POP - HackTricksbook.hacktricks.xyz

According to this article we could possibly list and read emails. This is important because if we have default credentials for the service we could possibly read these emails .

After resetting the password of the users I was able to read all their emails and was able to get my hands on an SSH password.

So the mailadmin asked James to send a temporary password to mandy.