Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Eric Paynter <eric@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] qmail woes
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 20:15:30
Message-Id: 58228.198.162.158.16.1085775323.squirrel@65.61.200.197
1 Ben Munat said:
2 > PPS: Something else I've been meaning to ask: isn't there a certain
3 > amount of risk in setting up qmail to relay all mail originating from
4 > the server? If I eventually have a number of users on this machine
5 > couldn't one of them abuse this priviledge?
6
7 Sure. You're trusting your app server to only send valid mail. If the app
8 server falls, it can be used in a bad way. That's a part of the risk of
9 having an app send email.
10
11 -Eric
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