[BUGS] Much ado about Sendmail

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 09/01/2008, at 10:10 AM, jonathan michaels wrote:

>> I generally change the name of root in the passwd data base to
>> reflect what server it is, rather than 'charlie root'..
>
> actually this is avery good idea, it makes sence (ok to me) on teh  
> surface
>
>> But in this case I need to use masquerading for the server to
>> accept mail from the box,
>
> and this is where it starts to get messy/hairy/strange fro me,
> either i have missd teh point completely or you are doing
> something completely strange that i cannot fathom, because on
> my system(s) i change the root: alias to me, call me a
> narcissist.
>
>> so either the system mail needs to NOT come from root or root
>> needs to get its address masqueraded, assuming that doesn't
>> break internal stuff..
>
> why does it "need" to be so ?? and /or what sort of 'system
> mail' reporting are you talking about ?? because the basic
> maintenace stuff taken care of by the root crontab
> 'maintenance' stuff done over night, i call mine midnight
> maintenance, in memory of a bygone age of mail/news transport
> philosophies, as a homage if you will.
>
> on my v6.2 based (as well as teh lone v2,2,5) hosts all teh
> maintenance "mail" gets converted to j,,,mi.. as per teh root:
> alias, now this all comes to the at caamor dot com dot au
> aliased address and my mua then sorts it via the way that mutt
> as avaliable .. i choose Subject: as teh subject: has the
> machine name from which teh report has come .. relatively
> simple .. now as regards those fancy gui mua i don't have a
> clue as i am only starting with evolution and i don't hardly
> use it as it just takes tooooo much horsepower to run.
>
> if tehat teh mail you are talking about it not a real
> issue/problem, i don't think ?

Yes, just talking about the general crontab stuff plus a few
extra scripts I have it run for backups etc..

If I make it masquerade root then all the mails from any
machine in that domain are root at domain, but the name
of the sender is different for each machine because I
changed roots name and the subject line contains the
machine name.. So I'm not seeing any issue with doing
this even though the documentation seems to suggest
it's bad..