Re: Virtual users or system users for a mail server

Raoul Bhatia <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:51:39 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.isp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 29 September 2014 15:32:16 CEST, Sven Hartge <[email protected]> wrote:
>Marc Aymerich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> One thing that I'm not quite sure about is how to deal with user
>provided
>> procmails, since the process which executes them has privileges for
>all
>> vmailboxes, this sounds like a security problem. Perhaps I'm mistaken
>or
>> missing something here. Do you guys need to provide this kind of
>service on
>> your mail servers (user provider procmail or sieve) ?
>
>Solution is simple: don't provide procmail as filtering solution, use
>Sieve to allow users to filter their mails.
>
>Grüße,
>Sven.

AFAIRC there is a virtual uid mapping available which can query a database, LDAP etc..

Cheers,
Raoul
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Raoul Bhatia


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