Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 09:27:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Joachim Griesche <griesche@bsd.ist-ffo.de> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Forwarding mail to /dev/null Message-ID: <200206220727.g5M7R3T06825@bsd.ist-ffo.de>
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Hello!
From my point of view, forwarding e-mails to /dev/null
violates some basic assumptions on how an MTA should
work. The following has been taken from
/usr/share/doc/smm/09.sendmail/paper.ascii.gz:
2) Reliability, in the sense of guaranteeing that
every message is correctly delivered or at least
brought to the attention of a human for correct
disposal; no message should ever be completely
lost.
If you don't have a service, you don't need the
corresponding pseudo-user. If you have the service, RFC
2142 requires you to have the corresponding e-mail address,
and root should glance at the e-mails arrived. (RFC 2142
has already been cited on the list.)
With best regards
Joachim Griesche
Network administrator
Institut fuer Solartechnologien GmbH
Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
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