[BlueOnyx:25625] Re: Mail server problem with Outlook

[Ken Hohhof]

Probably because all the way back to the Cobalt RaQ this is a hosting appliance that provides web, mail, FTP and other services.  Most people using BlueOnyx are probably hosting at least web and email and maybe other services on the same server.

On a server that just does email, there's no reason that a username can't be pretty much whatever you want, @ is just another character.

-----Original Message-----
From: Blueonyx <blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it> On Behalf Of Michael Aronoff
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 2:36 PM
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it>
Subject: [BlueOnyx:25624] Re: Mail server problem with Outlook

Michael Stauber wrote:
 > There is another benefit: If the email address is also one part of the login  > credentials (and the remaining part being the password), then you're  > already exposing half of the login credentials to the whole world.

If you look at the attempted logins to hack email accounts you will see that almost all are trying the full email address as the username. I LOVE that BlueOnyx has just the username instead of the email address as it prevents virtually all the email hacks. I have other servers with the username as the full email and those email accounts get hacked very often.

Please do not change this!

Thanks,
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M Aronoff Out – maronoff at gmail.com

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