On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Albert Hurd wrote:
ahurd >1. Why is smtp installed by default? The typical user who uses
Netscape apparently
ahurd >doesn't need it. Perhaps it should be installed only with packages that
need it, and security
ahurd >problems addressed.
what is installed depends on what
Albert Hurd wrote:
> 1. Why is smtp installed by default? The typical user who uses Netscape
> apparently
> doesn't need it. Perhaps it should be installed only with packages that need
> it, and security
> problems addressed.
Extract from slink netbase_3.11-1.2.deb's postinst file :
# create
You're not going to find a whole lot of folks who feel that
default settings in a Debian distribution for mail services
are "giving Linux a bad name", but nonetheless...
Most Unix users probably don't pick up their mail with
Netscape. They use MTA's and MUA's as they were originally
designed and
I am a casual user of Debian. Just got a call from @home informing me that without my
knowledge, my computer was being used as a mail relay to send spam mail and that I was
responsible for the security to see that this didn't happen. It took me a few minutes
reading the Security Howto to see th
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