Re: IMAP4rev1 2000.283 allows access to system files

[full-disclosure () lists netsys com (Kurt Seifried)]

Uh. This is EXPECTED behaviour, as in "yes, we know about it, it's designed
to do this, and has been doing this since the dawn of time". If you do not
like it you can:

a) chroot the users to their home dir, which is a REAL pain in the ass if
their mail spool is in /var/spool/mail or something similar, you will also
need to copy various library files/etc in.
b) use a different imap server such as cyrus which uses an internal mail
store


Kurt Seifried, kurt () seifried org
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