On 06/06/2011 02:52 AM, Amish Munshi wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Rony <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Mails are going as required and only to those in the recipient_access >> list as required. Now if an employee has left and his/her entries are >> removed from the postfix box as well as the ISP server mail accounts, >> the Outlook Express mailer can still send mails as that non-existent >> user. What I found through more reading of docs is that my OE accounts >> can send mails even without authentication as I don't have >> smtpd_auth_enable and the LAN is in my mynetworks parameter. Not a big >> problem as it is local and under control and the OE account can be >> deleted for that user. However, why is the ISP allowing this unknown >> user which postfix is relaying when I have everything set in the >> smtp_auth_ part of postfix? Suppose there is a flaw in my settings, >> shouldn't the ISP's mail server reject those mails when the username and >> password do not match with their list? That user has been deleted from >> their server. >> >> >> > If you add a new user to postfix and DO NOT add this user to ISP. Is it > possible to send mails as this new user using OE? > >
Even if you remove the user from postfix and the ISP, I can still send from OE as another user. -- Freedom is a shared resource. Take some, leave the rest for others. Please trim your replies. Avoid cross posting to other lists. Post your replies below the relevant original text, leaving a line space. Regards, Rony. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
