[4212] in bugtraq
more sendmail poop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (*Hobbit*)
Tue Mar 25 19:20:02 1997
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 16:48:03 -0500
Reply-To: *Hobbit* <hobbit@AVIAN.ORG>
From: *Hobbit* <hobbit@AVIAN.ORG>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
A fundamental problem here is that sendmail goes to *great* pains to
deliver a message *somewhere*, using a couple of different last-ditch
and potentially hazardous efforts to do so. A certain school of thought
says that mail should never be dropped on the floor. Personally I disagree
with this, which is why my old out-of-date fixkit simply disables the whole
dead.letter thing and bails out sans further delivery attempts.
I've send a couple of suggestions off to Eric including the idea of separate
compile-time "build modes" for sendmail, one of which would basically reduce
it to the functionality of SMAP that you'd run on a bastion or something.
I haven't heard anything back one way or the other, and it's been a couple
of months now...
_H*
