Re: About mailers, root and ILOVEYOU-like viruses

[John Summerfield]

> 
> Someone noticed that kmail tries (and fails due to access rights) to
> interpret scripts in mail and wondered about a Linux box being stopped
> thanks to a scrpt beoing mailed to root.  However no MTA worth his
> salt (and that means sendmail isn't) would accept to send mail to
> root, only to an alias of it.

I disagree about no "MTA worth his salt," and sendmail certainly DOES 
deliver mail to root.

You can always create an alias yourself.

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John Summerfield
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