Patrick Ale writes: > >> This is going to scribble all over your maildir, as root - not something >> you really want to happen. > > I don't think you run sqwebmail as root.. it would make me cry if someone > did...
When in doubt, don't think: find out for sure. >> Setting this tiny glitch aside, the problem with this is that now anyone >> who knows at least one valid mail account name on this server will now be >> able to fill the account with crap. Do it long enough, and you'll run out >> of disk space. > > Well, you can have disk quotas for a user so that above an amount of > directory space used the emails get declined. sqwebmail won't work well with disk quotas. > Second, this is possible anyway. If I know your account name and I fireup an > email client ot just use telnet I can send as many crap as I want to that > account (not my intention to try for the record). For most values of crap, they will be stopped by the spam filters. -- Sam
