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Re: [PLUG] webhosting question again
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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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