Mail. Mail! Mail?

[Georg Bauhaus]

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