Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham@???> probably said:
> >>>>> "PIR" == Peter Radcliffe <pir@???>
> >>>>> "PH" == Philip Hazel <ph10@???>
> PIR> Not even as a special case a'la :blackhole: ?
> This seems very messy. Where was the /dev/null coming from, and why
> did that address have no uid/gid associated with it (ie can the
> problem be better fixed elsewhere?).
The address came from our virtual host databases that used /dev/null with
sendmail. They have been fixed elsewhere - not to use /dev/null.
I was just wondering if it was easy to treat /dev/null as :blackhole:,
if it isn't - fair enough.
> Why not just restrict it to things where the user does have write
> permission (probably via group membership).
Sounds sensible.
> [how often do you edit messages - I must admit I have *never* used this]
On a frequent enough basis, actually. Usually to to pass on messages to the
user that their mail client is mis-configured (because I just added the
valid address to the message because it got frozen on the queue).
> Need to be careful. There are still boxes that curl up and die when
> they see this - hence the convoluted code in smail (if other end dies
Lovely.
> when you say EHLO then reopen connection immediately and only use
> HELO). However in general ESMTP is a "good thing" (tm)
Yep.
> [Has anyone noticed my domain - good-thing.tm ??]
You didn't just get 'thing.tm' and have good.thing.tm and bad.thing.tm ?
:)
P.
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