On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Josip Rodin wrote:
And then someone files a bug saying they made it setuid but now it's completely open to the world... what do I do then? :)
This is the way that procmail works, and it's hardly "open to the world", it's just more susceptible to bugs.
(Any suggestion what to do with this bug? close? wontfix?)
Suggest "wontfix". That's what it looks like to me :)
Well, for that matter, most users don't need an MTA to begin with. It sounds like you want it (esmtp) in order to get the standard /usr/sbin/sendmail interface, but on the other hand, for most users that whole thing is just another piece of overhead.
That's not quite true: a lot of other packages require this interface that have nothing to do with sending internet mail, typically administration packages like cron-apt and logwatch that want to notify the administrator of certain events. email is the obvious way to do this, and the /usr/lib/sendmail interface the obvious way to send mail, as it requires only the ability to send text to a command. These are the sorts of package that a user might well want to run on a personal machine: they keep the machine up to date and monitor for possible security breaches and hardware failure (e.g. smartctl). This is hardly sysadmin or esoteric territory.
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