On Fri 09 Mar 2007 09:01:58 NZDT +1300, Carlos E. R. wrote: > Some system services use email to notify root or the user of some things. > For instance, smart monitoring, raid monitoring, rm installs - there was a > time when Yast mailed the user of some install notices.
Yes, having an MTA which can deliver local email is absolutely essential. cron, smartmontools, fetchmail(!), you name it. What would be a very good idea(TM) is if the MTA in its default configuration was prevented from delivering email to other than localhost or one of localhost's domain aliases. I tried this with postfix and found that it's not possible, though there are 2 drastic and not very nice workarounds for this problem. I believe Debian and a few other distros have had a default of "no mail is delivered externally" for a long time. SUSE should do likewise. Note I'm talking about the default config only here. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
