Ubuntu is under attack

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:10:20AM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 
> > Just in case you're in any doubt - if important information is being
> > generated by the system, it is not acceptable for that information to be
> > dropped in a file in /var/spool that many users will never interact with
> > in any way. 
> 
> That's good to hear, but somebody (I thought, you) already suggested it
> should be logged through syslog.  Are you assuring us that that is also not
> sufficient?  Ordinary users are no more likely to interact with that than
> with /var/spool.

No, that wasn't me.

> > * And potentially unanswerable - one of the UK's biggest ISPs doesn't
> > provide an SMTP smarthost, and blocks outgoing port 25. How is postfix
> > supposed to get important notification mails to their webmail account?
> 
> What?  They provide no email service to their users, at all, except through
> webmail?

Correct.

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