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Date:  Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:28:43 +0000
From:  Jason Humphrey <jasonh (at mark) businessws.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:08140] Re: Email server accepting email to username when no matching alias
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <457D4EFB.3060107 (at mark) businessws.com>
In-Reply-To:  <20061211150801.M28274 (at mark) vaporised.com>
References:  <002301c71c82$42460600$fe01000a (at mark) greenxp> <019601c71c8b$e66d8ec0$1e64a8c0 (at mark) nuonce.net> <20061211150801.M28274 (at mark) vaporised.com>
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Hasn't it always worked this way? Even on my raq550 boxes still running 
the old os it accepts username (at mark) domain.com

Maybe I'm miss reading the original post!

Thanks
Jason

Vapor wrote:
> I just noticed another issue this morning on a brand new (latest Brian's 4.6 ISO, fully 
> yum updated). More an opposite to the not relaying issue I suppose :)
>
> When you add a user and either do not include the exact username in the email aliases 
> box, or input any number of others except the exact username. The username (at mark) domain.com 
> email address still accepts email.
>
> This is easily resolved by inputting the exact username in the email aliases box 
> (either when creating the user, or subsequently), saving, then removing it and saving 
> again. So no really biggy.
>
> Just a bit of a pain having to troll through boxes, but mainly when setting up users I 
> assume some folks like myself use brief or cryptic usernames and alternative email 
> aliases as the "actual" email address for that user. Currently they may not be aware 
> that username (at mark) domain.com is actually working too. 
>
> I setup a couple of hundred users late last week along my normal username convention to 
> avoid changing hundreds of end users usernames and passwords. I change those email 
> aliases (their actual email addresses) every quarter to avoid spam due to harvesting of 
> published addresses. Only to come into the office this morning to a mass of spam to 
> username (at mark) domain.com - I really hope there's a special place in hell for spammers :)
>
> Brett
>