Delivering to a folder

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Mon Dec 29 13:58:03 EST 2003


Lee wrote:

> Ken, that did it. Thank you.
> 
> One last question, are there any security risks to having all of a 
> user's mailboxes postable by anonymous?

Anybody that knows that the mailbox exists can send mail directly to it. 
  If this mailbox sits under an unlimited quotaroot, they could 
essentially fill up disk space by blasting th emailbox with spam.

> 
> On Dec 26, 2003, at 10:15 AM, Ken Murchison wrote:
> 
>> Lee wrote:
>>
>>> We're using postfix -> lmtp -> cyrus 2.1.16 on a redhat 9 box.
>>> When I try to send a message to user+folder at boxname.com its always 
>>> delivered to the user's inbox. What do i need to do to get the 
>>> messages delivered to the folder?
>>
>>
>> Assuming that <user> above is a placholder for the real userid, set 
>> the ACL on user/<user>/folder so that the 'anonymous' or 'anyone' 
>> userid has the 'p' (post) right.
>>
>>
>>> Our imapd.conf is attached below.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lee
>>> IMAPD.CONF:
>>> # Cyrus Imapd Configuration
>>> configdirectory: /export/cyrus/imap
>>> partition-default: /export/cyrus/spool/imap
>>> admins: admin
>>> tls_cert_file: /export/cyrus/server.pem
>>> tls_key_file: /export/cyrus/server.pem
>>> allowanonymouslogin: no
>>> allowplaintext: yes
>>> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
>>> servername: localhost
>>> autocreatequota: 0
>>> reject8bit: no
>>> quotawarn: 90
>>> timeout: 30
>>> poptimeout: 10
>>> dracinterval: 0
>>> drachost: localhost
>>> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>>> sievedir: /export/cyrus/sieve
>>> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
>>> #sieve_maxscriptsize: 32
>>> #sieve_maxscripts: 5
>>> # Get rid of folders as subfolders of INBOX
>>> altnamespace: yes
>>> unixhierarchysep: yes
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Kenneth Murchison     Oceana Matrix Ltd.
>> Software Engineer     21 Princeton Place
>> 716-662-8973 x26      Orchard Park, NY 14127
>> --PGP Public Key--    http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp
>>
> 
> 


-- 
Kenneth Murchison     Oceana Matrix Ltd.
Software Engineer     21 Princeton Place
716-662-8973 x26      Orchard Park, NY 14127
--PGP Public Key--    http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp





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