[lug] Firewall / Lockdown questions

[Brad Crotchett]

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 21:34 -0600, dio2002 at indra.com wrote:
> > That's correct.  Anything mail sent from local services to
> > 'root at Localhost.localdomain' or 'root at hostname' will be sent to the
> > external address that root is aliased to.  You will likely find the
> > aliases file at '/etc/aliases'.
> >
> > Don't forget to run 'newaliases' after editing the file.
> 
> found it! thanks.
> 
> every service basically aliases to root!  I thought there would be a lot
> of junk in root mailbox because of this but it's only about 2 mails a day.
>  so i guess aliasing root which everything else is aliased to isn't such a
> big deal in terms of mail load?
> 
> is there any security risk posed by sending out all root mail aliased to
> my external account?  i'm not sure what type of info is actually sent in
> these emails over time.
> 
> thanks

I run a spam filter on the receiving account so spam isn't usually a big
problem.  I have found though that there is little need for the majority
of the accounts in the aliases file.

Thanks,

Brad