Sendmail: "exposed" root, why?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2008-01-08 13:26, "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip at ridecharge.com> wrote:
> Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
>> Hello,
>>  From the sendmail documentation:
>> "There are always users that need to be "exposed" -- that is, their
>> internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade
>> name. Root is an example (which has been "exposed" by default prior
>> to 8.10)."

The `root' user is no longer exposed, so the really *imporant* question
is ``why are you still running Sendmail 8.10?''

> There is no directive, but you can edit the resultant .cf file
> and remove the line
> C{E}root
> or root from that line if more than one user.

The expose directives were part of the default OSTYPE and DOMAIN macros:

	OSTYPE(freebsd6)
	DOMAIN(generic)

> Be warned, you _will_ break /etc/crontab and periodic scripts mail
> delivery.

That's a possibility, yes :)