On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:50:47PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
I worry about the security implications of mail that would have gone
to root@ being either silently discarded or unknowingly ignored.
That *is* the current case on these systems. The mail happens to live in
/var/spool/mail/root, where it accumulates silenty, but the difference
between that and /dev/null is practically small.
On my own systems, I usually alias root to a special account (off system) I
have configured for that purpose -- but that requires configuration, and
it's no pain to install an MTA on systems where I want that.
Without configuration, it's better to fail in a way which might generate an
error than than to "succeed" in a way which buries the real failure.
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