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

[Jim Klimov]

On 2012-11-10 10:22, Roel_D wrote:
> 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.


That's arguable (backwards incompatible vs. expectations, at least)
and may be solved with some filters for IPS on "what comprises YOUR
minimal zone".

A zone often runs some tasks, at least the cron scheduler, which
feel the urge to post messages, even if only into a local mailbox
for root (or to a common diags user on a server, if so pointed by
the /etc/mail/aliases file). Granted, this does not need sendmail
server, at least not the full-blown one listening on "*:25", but
needs sendmail-client service or a "localhost:25" listener (or both?)

Improper networking setup (lack of FQDN in /etc/hosts, which is what
the fresh zone's sendmail usually complains about) can be disregarded
or trivially fixed in the hosts-file.

Anyhow, from me this started as a question about something that long
ago "used to be there" and now it's gone; we here bring it back manually
and wouldn't mind an easy way to bring it in automatically. Perhaps,
we need to make some local IPS repo with our default config packages...

//Jim