Understanding the limitations of Dovecot Submission Service

R. Diez rdiezmail-2006 at yahoo.de
Wed Nov 4 22:37:09 EET 2020


Hi all:

The Dovecot Submission Service is very enticing for laz... I mean for busy people like me. A couple of lines in dovecot.conf , and you have a local 
SMTP server that does authentication. No SASL loops to jump through! Very cool people like me also appreciate cool new features like BURL.

But now I want to understand its limitations. Say I just bought e-mail domain xxx at example.org . Say employee A has e-mail address a at example.org .

It this employee turns evil, will he/she be able to send e-mails impersonating b at example.org ? Or does the Dovecot Submission Service check that he 
only has permission to send as a at example.org ?

My requirements are pretty modest. Basically e-mail should just be sent all right. But are there any other reasons why I should avoid the Dovecot 
Submission Server anyway? The documentation does not really say much.

Thanks in advance,
   rdiez


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