Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães wrote:
> 
> Daniel Mayer [COUGA.net] escreveu:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are running postfix in an ISP mass-webhosting environment with
>> several customers per server. We'd like to limit the amount of mail a
>> user is allowed to send from its web pages (like php, cgi scripts etc.).
>> Processes of all users are running under unique system users and
>> therefore an accounting on this level would be very useful for us as all
>> these mail originate from 127.0.0.1.
>>   
> 
>     So, why not stop relaying even for 127.0.0.1 and get all your 
> customers to authenticate on the SMTP server ?
> 

Agreed.  By requiring authentication, it reduces the chance of a user 
uploading a script that sends at will.
You also have the authenticated user to hold accountable, easier to 
trace when there is a problem.

john

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