From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jun 22 0:27:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from bsd.ist-ffo.de (bsd.ist-ffo.de [192.124.253.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0204637B4F4 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 00:27:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from griesche@localhost) by bsd.ist-ffo.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5M7R3T06825 for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 09:27:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from griesche) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 09:27:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Joachim Griesche Message-Id: <200206220727.g5M7R3T06825@bsd.ist-ffo.de> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Forwarding mail to /dev/null Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message