[OpenIndiana-discuss] mailhost and other "standard" hostnames

[Roel_D]

Disabling sendmail as a standard would be nicer. Setting up a zone that complains about a misconfigured sendmail from the first boot on is a real pain to first users. 


Kind regards, 

The out-side

Op 10 nov. 2012 om 02:54 heeft Rob Shinn <rob.shinn at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On Nov 9, 2012 8:24 PM, "Jim Klimov" <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:
>> 
>> Back in Solaris 8 or so, the bundled sendmail included a default
>> smart_host definition, so that machines internal to a network
>> could collect and perhaps relay their messages on one dedicated
>> SMTP server. For this the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file included
>> 
>> DSmailhost$?m.$m$.
> 
> Encouraging such laziness seems like a bad idea, IMHO.  There are many
> rootkits that include tools for hunting for mailservers named things like
> mail,  mailhost, etc.
> 
> You did ask ...
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