please deactivate services by default!

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Thu Sep 25 23:05:29 UTC 2008


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 02:32:49PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> - The mail smarthost is a system setting that any configured MTA uses,
>   and any configured MUA automatically picks up (overridable)
> - The default aliases read the users' e-mail configuration, sending it
>   to their local account, gmail, yahoo, ISP mail, whatever

Log files tend to contain stuff like passwords typed in the wrong box so
we shouldn't casually point mail off box. Also a lot of mail from cron,
logging etc will be mail to explain your internet connection is down or your
email couldn't be forwarded ..




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