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

Gunnar Wrobel wrobel at pardus.de
Wed Apr 18 09:36:36 CEST 2007


"Alain Spineux" <aspineux at gmail.com> writes:

> 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 ?
>
> Any comment ?
>
> Now about smtpdpolicy.
> I read in /kolab/etc/kolab/kolab_smtpdpolicy :
>
> # 1) Only authenticated users can use sender <username>@$domain
>
> This is a good idea, but this collide with some habit people have. Like sending
> email using its company's domain from home using ISP smtp !
> The email will be accepted by the ISP and rejected by Kolab server !
> But any email send to address <username>@$another_domain, will
> be accepted and reach final destination without error.
> This could confuse people (like I was) !
>
> Give the choice in the GUI console will draw the attention of the
> administrator on
> this possible problem !
> A note about "554 <username>@$domain: Sender address rejected: Invalid sender"
> in the documentation or the wiki will ne be too luxurious

Hope this is understandable:

http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kolab2_Client_Troubleshooting_-_Mailing_problems

Cheers,

Gunnar

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