[BUGS] Much ado about Sendmail

[Trevor Roydhouse]

Jerahmy Pocott wrote:

> Firstly WHY is root an example of a user that needs to be exposed?

Because root in not unique across systems, so the internal system name 
is "exposed" rather than some common domain name?

> This behavior breaks cron and system logs getting mailed to me, as  
> exposing root makes the mail server reject the message.. So is there  
> anything bad about having root get masqueraded? Is there a better  
> alternative?

I simply add my email to the root alias in the mail aliases file :)

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Trevor Roydhouse                            Mob  : 0415-448-273
BJuris, LLB, LLM (UNSW)
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