[Kolab-devel] finely grained access to part of kolab : spam, virus, smtpdpolicy

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> writes:

> On Friday 13 April 2007 16:05, Alain Spineux wrote:
>> I thing it should be interesting to disable separately some port of kolab.
>> With 2.1 it not possible to disable spamassassin without disabling
>> virus checking !
>> While Spam checking is optional, I thing Virus checking is essential
>> and in case of
>> problems (like heavy load) it should be possible do disable them
>> separately. I thing it was possible in 2.0 ? Wasn't ?
>
> No it was not by default possible to enable disable this seperately.
> You can still disable and enable it using the amavisd configuration.
>
>> Now about smtpdpolicy.
>> I read in /kolab/etc/kolab/kolab_smtpdpolicy :
>>
>> # 1) Only authenticated users can use sender <username>@$domain
>>
>> This is a good idea, but this collide with some habit people have. Like
>> sending email using its company's domain from home using ISP smtp !
>
> They could just send it from home over the Kolab Server and be fine.
>
>> The email will be accepted by the ISP and rejected by Kolab server !
>> But any email send to address <username>@$another_domain, will
>> be accepted and reach final destination without error.
>> This could confuse people (like I was) !
>
> The default setting is to have those emails be marked as "untrusted",
> because otherwise it would be possible from somebody outside
> of your company network to send email from
> boss at your.company.example.org and it would look real.
>
>> Give the choice in the GUI console will draw the attention of the
>> administrator on
>> this possible problem !
>
> I think there is a choice, we are happy to improve the help texts
> of course.

I'll definitely add this to the wiki since I got exactly the same
question from a customer this week :)

Cheers,

Gunnar

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