=?iso-8859-1?Q?Re: Secure/hardened/minimal Debian (or "Why is the base system the way it i=
s?")?=
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On 20.05.2002 at 16:12:11, David Bell <david@DB7654321.dyndns.org> wrote:
> You could replace exim with ssmtp, which just forwards all email to your
> main mail server.
If that's anything like nullmailer, that means I can't send mail to root locally
does it not?
The environment I'm in has a smarthost, but it's generally for getting mail out
of the network, direct inbound SMTP isn't there, so the smarthost can't send it
elsewhere internally.
> On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 21:10, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> >
> > Secondly, even the base system comes with exim installed and port 25 open
> > (granted, I haven't checked to see if it's only on localhost). A lot of
> > reasonably necessary packages depend on a mail-transport-agent virtual
> > package being installed. For example, on my home machine, if I try to
> > remove the sendmail package, I can also kiss goodbye:
> >
> > apache
> > at
> > linpopup
> > log2mail
> > logcheck
> > logrotate
> > mailx
> > mindterm
> > mutt
> > netsaint
> > samba
> > squid
> > squid-cgi
>
>
>
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