F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

[Till Maas]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:57:37PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.

Bash usually tells you when there is mail in the spool, which is IMHO a
big difference to /dev/null.

Regards
Till