Reuben Thomas wrote:
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.
Just my two cents: sending email to the root account (physically)
instead using an alias is unnecessary and therefore deprecated by
the standard MTA on Debian.
Bye
Racke
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