Sendmail still default?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 20 13:11:08 UTC 2008
Till Maas wrote:
> On Sat October 18 2008, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> [E-mail was changed]
>
>> Um... which is actually another reason for local mail being default; in
>> the event a user's mail recipient is not configured, it goes to a local
>> spool only readable by root and that user. If Sue sets up a computer and
>> adds an account for Bob, it's not really ideal if Bob's mail gets sent
>> to sue at EXAMPLE.com because Bob doesn't have a recipient specified.
>
> Sending log file contents that may contain sensitive data via unencrypted
> e-mail is not a good thing to do imho.
Modern MTA's can encrypt transmission if configured to.
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Les Mikesell
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