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Re: Mail. Mail! Mail?
Zack Weinberg wrote:
All modern MTAs can be configured, quite easily, in a
'dumb client' mode where they accept mail only from the local host --
Well, "easily" is arguable if you aren't a Unix sysadmin, and
depending on the MTA...
There are even programs, such as sSMTP
which, not a month ago had bugs causing overflow vulnerability. ;-)
and nullmailer, which have *only* this
functionality.
Good Thing, and improving. However, be sure to add a procedure
to your network monitoring setup to inform you of risky bugs in network
related software. And this is where work starts to be caused by
the assumption that e.g. a GCC shell script can send reports
using the Mail program using an MTA possibly involving inetd, ...
-- Georg