Am 24.08.2014 um 17:52 schrieb Edwin Marqe: > Recently, we've had an issue with a stolen password of one of our > users, resulting in a few junk mails sent out. Fortunately, we could > change the user's password reasonably fast and it didn't do any bigger > harm. However, after changing the password, the user was still able to > continue sending junk mail for minimally 20 seconds, after which we > restarted Postfix. > > I assume this happens because the user took advantage of the opened > session which won't require re-authenticate and continued sending > those mails. > > Is there a Postfix specific command that would end/kill a user's > session? If not, any workaround that would disconnect that user? I've > been trying to find something regarding this in the documentation but > found nothing
if you only reload -> as expected, it is intended to reload configuration but not kill running operations if you really restart it is impossible that any session survives - how should it - the processes are terminated and so all connections
