-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-03-14 at 11:24 +0100, Gaël Lams wrote:
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.
There used to be the following lines in /etc/sysconfig/mail:
## Type: yesno ## Default: no ## Config: postfix # # Set this to "yes" if mail from remote should be accepted # this is necessary for any mail server. # If set to "no" or empty then only mail from localhost # will be accepted. # SMTPD_LISTEN_REMOTE="no"
Why have they been removed?
It hasn't been removed: I have it (10.2) However, notice that that line does not prevent mail from being _sent_ to outside. It just prevents mail from being sent to that system using smtp (ie, postfix or sendmail). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF+DPjtTMYHG2NR9URAmviAJ9XXFBksQfnLDm+8B1/iR2VGkQRdwCeMVwT OvSAjHYI4x+ZPAdZtJSyA/w= =bFMN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----