root e-mail (Was Questionable Status)

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 15:55 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 11:51 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: 
> > Mikkel on 09/23/2009 11:49 AM wrote:
> > > This is not good. Maybe a modification of the install procedure to
> > > set an alias so that all mail goes to the first normal user that is
> > > set up? Or an option to do this as part of the install? What do you
> > > think?
> > > 
> > 
> > This is going off-topic of the OP, but this topic is always discussed
> > around Alpha time every 6 months. Nothing ever comes out of the
> > discussions. Feel free to open a bug or provide patches.
> > 
> It is easy to send root's mail to another user using the /etc/aliases
> file. So the above is not really a problem.
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assuming that you are not on a cable/phone network that doesn't block
outbound port 25 or that someone is using local mail, your assertion
would be true but those are bad assumptions to make for a large portion
of the users.

Craig


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