Unable to delete the main email account

[ranz]

You are right - Inbound and Outbound are different - and you're also right about the php exploit. I wasn't arguing that - merely clarifying my point about internet-bound mail (which it needed).

My request, which seems rather diluted by you now, was to see if there was any benefit in having the default mailbox a setting which gave it internal (local) mail only. This would prevent it from sending and receiving (inbound and outbound internet-bound email). I also made a comment further about how most of my clients don't use the default account either. I still see this as a fairly decent request.

By the way, the length of time you have spent "doing this" is irrelevant. I too have been working in the IT industry since 1988 (when I graduated) - and am continuously learning new things. The first mail server I worked on was an NCR Unix system. I never walk around thinking that I know more than somebody else purely because of time in industry.

 

[floyd]

My request, which seems rather diluted by you now, was to see if there was any benefit in having the default mailbox a setting which gave it internal (local) mail only.

You probably should have created a new thread for that in order to avoid confusion with the original request.

This would prevent it from sending and receiving (inbound and outbound internet-bound email).

I don't know how the mail server would know if it came from a local source or internet source. Jeff can probably help us on that.

 

[nobaloney]

Since 1995? Gee you must be younger than me . But commercially only since '95, 'cause that's when the Internet tubes and pipes went from military to commercial .

And of course even if you didn't have a main email account, or even if it could only receive email from local users, then the php program could still send email from the username.

Jeff

 

[nobaloney]

My request, which seems rather diluted by you now, was to see if there was any benefit in having the default mailbox a setting which gave it internal (local) mail only. This would prevent it from sending and receiving (inbound and outbound internet-bound email).

No it wouldn't. Any php program owned by the user would want to use it by default, if not as the from address, as the sender. And since it can send mail, it's required by RFCs that it can receive it.

I also made a comment further about how most of my clients don't use the default account either. I still see this as a fairly decent request.

Mine don't either. So set up a forward for it, sending it to you, or even to a blackhole. You can even automate that with an automatic post domain creation shell.

By the way, the length of time you have spent "doing this" is irrelevant.

Yeah, but try telling us that .

I too have been working in the IT industry since 1988 (when I graduated) - and am continuously learning new things. The first mail server I worked on was an NCR Unix system.

And I started as a night-shift computer systems operator for NCR back when it was called National Cash Register. We're talking 1967 (or so) here. Within a year I was designing software for their Model 350 (sorry I can't find any info on the model online; maybe it didn't exist ).

I never walk around thinking that I know more than somebody else purely because of time in industry.

Does that mean you won't in 20 more years? I'd hope you would know more by then, as computer languages and interfaces are being dumbed down daily. I remember when to set up a hard drive in MS-DOS you had to know the hardware configuration. Now you don't even know it has sectors (Windows tells you only about percentages). And it's getting worse.

Please take this post in the Good Humor in which it's written .

Jeff

 

[ranz]

Oh I remember the hard drive sectors! I also remember machine code, IBM DOS (before MS-DOS), MicroBee's and Z80A's
My first systems gig was to code a Menu System using Uniplex. Those were the days

 

[nobaloney]

Actually, these were the good old days. In my young adult years I met two guys who made their living programming these; that's what really got me turned on into programming. Soon after I bought an IBM System/3 model 10 for the office, and did some book publishing with the help of two IBM Selectric Composers. We ran off personalized sales letters (mailed first class) with two IBM Selectric Typewriters, equipped with a pin-platen for running continuous letterheads.

But this has gotten offtopic, so it's over .

Jeff