Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1997 17:28:48 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc aliases Message-ID: <989.871140528@critter.dk.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Aug 1997 08:26:24 PDT." <199708091526.IAA11577@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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Rod, You're perfectly capable of editing /etc/aliases. Poul-Henning In message <199708091526.IAA11577@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" write s: >> > I _hope_ these are commented out by default as BSD has traditional >> > only enable aliaes for accounts that exist in the default /etc/passwd >> >> Does that include the currently existing "postmaster"? :-) > >There is a difference between those.. MAILER-DAEMON is required by >sendmail, sendmail is a standard supplied program, and MAILER-DAEMON >I believe even appears as required by the RFC's. The indirection >throught the alias postmaster to root seems to be redundunt and I >have no idea why they did that. > >> >> Seriously, I think these new entries are worthwhile *uncommented* so >> that those legions of new systems don't bounce abuse, as has become an >> oh-so-annoying tradition against a hoped-for defacto standard. > >I really want ``abuse, webmaster and hostmaster'' mail BOUNCED on >80% of the systems I administer, that mail shouldn't be sent to >dedicated routers, personal systems, etc, etc. > >If you want a ``hoped-for defacto standard'' to do any good >get these added to the host requirements RFC. > >As I see it right now it is just 3 more ways for root to get >junk email. (Yes, the spammers are not filtering ``webmaster, hostmaster >or abuse'' for there bulk email lists, and some of them even cull >the NIC data specifically LOOKING for new sites and hit both >webmaster and hostmaster trying to sell you bulk email lists. >Please don't give them yet another way to fill my mail box! > >-- >Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com >Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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