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 

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