[Nottingham] Mail? and services hardening

[Peter Taffs]

It also gives something else to think about with security and 
firewalls, any service like mail (is sendmail the old version?) on a 
network computer makes it more vulnerable, so if the box is on the 
internet you'll want to make sure you keep it fully patched. 
Alternatively have a firewall protecting the service from the internet. 
My firm's hardening standards require that mail and any other 
"unnecessary" service is not started.

Peter


On 24 Sep 2004, at 01:03, Martin wrote:

> David Aldred wrote:
>> The man page for Cron says:
>> "When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the 
>> crontab (or
> [---]
>> How does 'mail' in Linux work?  I expected that if I ran cron jobs 
>> with
> [---]
>
> Very well, and for many years (:-))
>
>
> You just need to start your local mail service.
>
> Mandrake comes with Postfix as standard. The config file is easy. MCC 
> likely has it all nicely scripted if you look.
>
> Your biggest choice is whether to use 'mbox's in /var/spool, or 
> 'Maildir's local to each user.
>
> My strong preference is for users to have their own Maildir.
>
>
> Then you'll next be asking about courier-imap and fetchmail!
>
> Good items for a mini howto talk???
>
> Good luck,
> Martin
>
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