Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 00:50:45 +1100 From: Jerahmy Pocott <quakenet1@optusnet.com.au> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Sendmail: "exposed" root, why? Message-ID: <8EE4A2AA-E15D-4C07-AFBC-061A4595DA82@optusnet.com.au>
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Hello, From the sendmail documentation: "There are always users that need to be "exposed" -- that is, their internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name. Root is an example (which has been "exposed" by default prior to 8.10)." Is there actually any reason why root needs to be "exposed"? Root is set to an external address in aliases and it really needs to be masqueraded in order to for it to get delivered, but would that cause problems with anything? How do you stop sendmail from doing this, I don't see any directive to NOT expose root, only options to expose other addresses as well.. Perhaps there is a better way to send system mailed logs to an external address that doesn't send them from root? Thanks for any info! J.
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