Re: root's mail

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:12:13AM +0200, Jason Dale wrote:
> Thanks, but I am not sure what entry I should put
> in the /etc/aliases file, and whether such an action
> will be safe.

It will be safe if your path to the target is safe.
> 
> Perhaps what I should mention is that the mail goes
> through our own local firewall first. We are protected
> by another firewall, so this firewall is a 'test' machine,
> but nonetheless active and running. The firewall runs
> exim, and the machine I am trying to send the mail to
> is running sendmail.
> 
> I used the syntax root@[209.212.104.70] ,
> but had to configure exim to accept domain
> literals. With sendmail, more recent versions of
> sendmail will block domain literals. You have to
> uncomment/add the line
> 
> FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')
> 
Now talking about an unsafe option. Even the comments in the
sendmail.mc file warns you against this option. It seems to me that
this is just what you don't want to do.
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