Nikolaus Rath schrieb:
> But unless I have some exotic filtering and/or rate limiting configured,
> he can do exactly the same thing by connecting to localhost:smtp, or
> invoking sendmail directy, can't he? So why the additional protection
> for lmtp?
Imagine a Cyrus Box only accepting LMTP connections, no sendmail, no
Postfix, no other SMTP MTA running on it.
Then imagine a frontend smtp relay delivering directly via LMTP over TCP
to your Cyrus box. You can use lmtp auth then to prevent other machines
from directly delivering mails via lmtp.
Pascal
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