Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

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On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:50:47PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> I worry about the security implications of mail that would have gone
> to root@ being either silently discarded or unknowingly ignored.

That *is* the current case on these systems. The mail happens to live in
/var/spool/mail/root, where it accumulates silenty, but the difference
between that and /dev/null is practically small.

On my own systems, I usually alias root to a special account (off system) I
have configured for that purpose -- but that requires configuration, and
it's no pain to install an MTA on systems where I want that.

Without configuration, it's better to fail in a way which might generate an
error than than to "succeed" in a way which buries the real failure.



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