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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:00:12 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Real-time alarms
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19990919195722.047b2e20@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199909200154.SAA56892@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <4.2.0.58.19990919175752.04577a20@localhost>

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At 06:54 PM 9/19/99 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

>And you surely don't want you notification mechanism to be a something
>that lives in that ``outer permiter'' now do you.  That is where e-mail,
>particularly sendmail, lives.

Who says that the agent that sends the notifications needs to go through 
sendmail? (It's pretty trivial to do SMTP directly.) Or that sendmail 
should be in the outer perimeter? (It's a good idea to sandbox sendmail
and BIND; I believe that OpenBSD does this to both by default now.)

--Brett



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