Hi everybody.
I just saw a terrible behaviour on my Imail 5.09 running on a WinNT4.0 sp6.
Let's suppose we have a mailbox called [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This mailbox works properly and I can send and receive mail correctly.
what if someone sends a test message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this
mailbox doesn't exist and no alias has never been specified using that
name)?
This mail is not supposed to be delivered. The system should answer "Unknown
users" or something like that.
But that's not how the story goes:
this mail will be delivered into the duffyduck mailbox, but it won't be
stored into the main.mbx file. The system will create another file in the
user's mailbox called john.mbx
the only way for users to see the new file is to gain access to the web
messaging server included in Imail: there he will find another item called
john (we just sent the mail to duffyduck-john) in the mailbox summary which
contains the mail we sent.
If he tries to retrieve his new mail using POP3, he won't receive the mail
we sent to duffyduck-john. He will only be able to retrieve his own mail
delivered by the system in his main.mbx file.
Moreover, if I specify duffyduck-john as POP3 Username and, as password, the
same password that duffyduck uses, I get access to a non existent mailbox
that contains the test message we sent
what does this all mean?
this means that every user could create all the recipients he needs using
his mailbox's name as a prefix.
Did anybody notice the same thing before?
does your mail server behave the same as mine?
any solutions?
(Len, Daniel, I hope you will be able to solve this too... ;-))
thanks in advance..
marco argentieri
winmail.dat
