Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: > Even on localhost? Why? Where is a security issue?
Running a full featured MTA - not MDA like I previously mentioned; that's what happens when you start using acronyms ;^) - listening on port 25 just to getting email updates seems like an overkill. Every daemon with capability of listening on an interface can be misconfigured and MIGHT be a potential issue. I'd like to avoid setting up anything which I'm not familiar with just to get some email send to local account. I use quite a few monitoring programmes and monit seems to be the only one which requires a mail daemon. > "/usr/bin/sendmail" still needs a local MDA It does, but it doesn't need to be daemon and listen on port 25. > You can just use external smtp: I know I can and am already doing that using msmtp - it's set up once and all other software uses it without even knowing - through sendmail interface. I don't want to set up every single bit of software to use external email server - I already done it once and would expect that to work transparently, which does - only monit seems to be an exception. Therefore using sendmail interface seems sensible and easy to add. Monit provides a web interface but doesn't require a web server - it would be nice if for local-only communication it would be happy with local-only MTAs - I hope I got it right this time ;^) Regards, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
