Sendmail still default?

[Till Maas]

On Mon October 20 2008, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.

Yes, this is possible, but how does this help a non technical user that does 
not know how to this? Also only the encryption of the e-mail itself and 
decrypting on a trusted machine really protects the sensitive data. This is 
probably to complicated for the targeted user, so it would be a lot easier to 
keep the data on the local machine.

Regards,
Till
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