[2689] in SIPB_Linux_Development
webmaster@machinename.mit.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Wed Feb 24 19:17:53 1999
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Cc: webmaster-internal@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 19:17:31 EST
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
webmaster discovered today that we have a very large
problem with how mail delivery under Linux works when
web databases like Alexa do their updates. The update
mailing scripts send mail to webmaster@machinename.mit.edu,
however, most linux boxes see this, and turn it into
webmaster@mit.edu and happily send it along to us.
It would be really nice if sendmail.cf in the distributions
of linux that we control were configured such that webmaster
unqualified went to webmaster@mit.edu and webmaster@machinename.mit.edu
(fully qualified) went to root@localhost.
The current configuration has the potential to spam webmaster
with an awful lot of email over the next couple weeks as
Alexa does a full database update. Our only other choice is
to start bouncing mail from them. This really doesn't seem
fair to the owners of the Linux boxes that should be receiving
this mail because they have an indexed web server.
Can someone with more sendmail clue than I have please edit
the file for both 4.2 and 5.2-beta and send out an update
notice?
--Angie
for the webmasters
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