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Bug 80200 - /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: option goaway should be included
Summary: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: option goaway should be included
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement
Assignee: Net-Mail Packages
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Reported: 2005-01-31 05:41 UTC by Toralf Förster
Modified: 2005-02-17 01:05 UTC (History)
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Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev 2005-01-31 05:41:21 UTC 
The standard configuration of this file should include the line

O PrivacyOptions=authwarnings,goaway

rather then

O PrivacyOptions=authwarnings

to increase security without loss of functionality

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Andrea Barisani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-02-12 06:02:47 UTC 
The shipped sendmail.mc file is very simple and I would like to leave it that way.  As with every MTA the user and/or admin should carefully review the documentation and change the conf accordingly. There are tons of security options that we  *could* enable in sendmail (like with exim or postfix) but we simply don't want to influence those choices. The basic conf are just there for defining the proper OS and local mailer.  I'll close this bug as WONTFIX if no further comments are posted.  I'd like to write a commented sendmail.mc file in the near future, but probably that should go in a separate doc or under sendmail-gentoo.mc.
Comment 2 Andrea Barisani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-02-17 01:05:45 UTC 
Closing this bug for now.