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I'm blown away by the comment that the Fedora maintainers didn't configure sendmail to deliver into the canonical user mailboxes. On FreeBSD sendmail forwards
by xenophonf 12y ago
I'm blown away by the comment that the Fedora maintainers didn't configure sendmail to deliver into the canonical user mailboxes. On FreeBSD sendmail forwards all mail for local services like cron, daily/weekly/monthly status/security reports, or whatever to root, kind of like logwatch. This built-in monitoring one of my favorite parts of the default install and something I usually have to enable separately on my Linux and Windows servers. Sure, at scale one would dump the relevant logs/reports to a SEIM, but it's still nice to have some kind of basic monitoring built into the O/S.
- sciurus 12y agoUnless I'm mistaken, Fedora did what you describe- it configured sendmail to send to user mailboxes in /var/spool/mail. The argument for removing it was that on most installs nobody checks those mailboxes, making it the equivalent of /dev/null with the downside of potentially using all your disk space.