Yes, I know that restarting everything ends up, which is what we finally did, but I was looking for some kind of command or at least a way of ending a specific user's session without restarting Postfix, as this domain handles a really big amount of traffic and seems overkill restart the whole Postfix for just one user.
2014-08-24 16:56 GMT+01:00 li...@rhsoft.net <li...@rhsoft.net>: > > > 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
