Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:04:08 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@eunet.yu>, "Russell E. Meek" <rmeek@russellmeek.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions Message-ID: <80f4f2b20709051404l6091bafas48d63fd4076e8fef@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCMEFDCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <80f4f2b20709050354q4d186df4y6958e2f81d5dfc66@mail.gmail.com> <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCMEFDCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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> I would submit you think you do. For example, are you planning on > putting a webmail interface on the server? A lot of people do. Well > if you do and you put a scrap of CGI on there that has a hole in it > a spammer can come along and cause that to relay mail from incoming > http right into your mail queue. He doesen't need root access to > do this. I have never stated interest in putting web mail up in my to-do list, and in fact, have explicitly stated at least once, I've no intention of doing that. To be blunt, I don't trust it. I only use it for things on which I don't care about the security (ex. reading mailing lists). I care about the security of my server. -Jim Stapleton
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