Tim Hosking wrote:

>>
>
>This seems like a bad idea (I could spam your server and create 1000 new
>accounts just for the hell of it). How about scaling it down a bit and
>having such mail delivered to a single nominated account with a custom
>filter installed. When mail arrives for an address that has not been seen
>before then create a new sub-folder in the maildir and deliver to that.
>
>I suppose you could always add a cron job which searched that user's maildir
>for such folders and created the new accounts. For that matter this approach
>would not require the sub-folders - reformail could easily extract the
>destination email address from any messages it found in the nominated
>maildir.
>
>
I concure with the above mentioned method...  creating new users blindly 
just doesn't seem like a very good idea.  Especiall with upper limits on 
the amount of UID's and GID's available on a given system.

Jkeating
j2solutions.net



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