Martin DiViaio on Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:20:07 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] webhosting question again



On the 13th day of November in the year 2002 you wrote:

> 
> for example lets say theres a webmail application,
> which reads mail from the sendmail spool (give apache
> appropriate permissions).  Therefore
> other users can read anything in that spool too 
> if they can write cgi-bin, specifying absolute
> pathnames!
> 
> am i thinking correctly or am i missing something?
> any insight on industry standard practice on this
> aspect?
> 

Most webmail applications use either IMAP or POP3 to access the mail 
spools. This keeps them locally secure but web accessable.


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