From: "Kent Nilsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:57:27 +0200
Hello,
I'm running qmail 1.01, which has been working perfectly for me.
But once in a while a message double-bounces, and the message
ends up in my mailbox.
The problem is that the entire message, including the text of the
mail and any attachments, ends up in my mailbox, which again
means I can read other peoples mail if it qmail doesn't know where
to send it.
I can of course just be quiet about it and delete the mail as soon
as I see it's not for my eyes, but it's still not fair to my users as I
can potentially read private mail, and it's probably breaking some
privacy law?
There are confidentiality issues, certainly, but you should be educating
your users that the only way to guarantee email privacy is to use PGP or
equivalent -- in which case you would get content you couldn't decrypt.
(Users also need to use valid return addresses when they send things,
whether or not they want you to see their bounces.)
I see some others here have had double bounces end up in their
mailbox. Do you have access to the entire message as well? Any
tips how to fix the "problem"?
Kent R. Nilsen
I'm of the opinion that it's better left alone. It is usually helpful
for the user to see the content of their own bounces (in the single
bounce case) in order to help discover what needs resending, and it's
always helpful for sysadmins to see the content of double bounces so
that they can distinguish spam from misconfigured local users.
Speaking of which, I notice that your "from" address and your
"reply-to" address are different . . . ?
-- Bob Rogers
