Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3 Email broken user@anydomainonbox arg

[SM <nntp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
At 18:58 27-12-2001 -0500, BobbyT wrote:
>I have a weird problem that just occurred for no reason...
>People can send email to theirusername@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and it
>goes to them, as well as over-riding any email aliases for that domain

Sendmail finds the first match for "theirusername" and delivers the email
there.

>even though I have the alias bobbyt under my domain.  In other words
>people can use any domain on the raq.  The mail user names seem to be
>working on a global scale.  a little bit of a mail security problem.
>someone else was getting all webmaster@ across all domains.

It is not an email security problem, it is an admin problem. :)  You should
use unique names as user names and then alias names such as "webmaster" to
avoid such problems.

Regards,
-sm