Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:03:34 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Phil Homewood <pdh@bit.net.au> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall DOESN'T ASK, dangerous defaults! (Was: Re: wats so special about freeBSD?) Message-ID: <39CC55C6.A4507448@softweyr.com> References: <99016.969437392@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <cjclark@reflexnet.net> <99016.969437392@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20000920125405.D22272@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000921113652.053d4960@localhost> <20000921210521.A17973@mithrandr.moria.org> <39CA8E45.7DA45048@softweyr.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000921182152.046d6ee0@localhost> <20000922103446.A25222@mithrandr.moria.org> <20000922183836.G27376@atlas.bit.net.au>
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Phil Homewood wrote:
>
> Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> > email clients use sendmail to send mail. If sendmail isn't running, it
> > doesn't queue. We'll just lose that mail to a black hole. That isn't
> > obvious.
>
> You could default to running sendmail without the "-bd" flag
> and have a checkbox to enable "this machine wants to accept
> email from the network", maybe?
OpenBSD does this by default.
Some simple documentation on how to replace sendmail with postfix, qmail,
or exim would be handy too. Wokness and I are working on the latter,
having both recently coverted to exim on multiple systems.
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