Hello Sven, thanks for filing this.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 02:39:06PM +0200, Sven Geggus wrote: > looking at the default Email options in sudo I was wondering about the > rationale behind them. > > Currently we have this: > Defaults mail_badpass I think that's just a case of "we have always done it that way". Bdale commited that back in 2012. > My personal opinion is that all mail should be off by default (like e.g. in > the package unattended-upgrades) because nowerdays most systems do likely > not even have an MTA configured in a way which will direct mail to root to a > reasonable target. I can follow you here. I am inclined to remove that Defaults line (in unstable and therfore in forky) and put in a debian/NEWS item documenting the change. What does the rest of the team think? Greetings Marc
