Till Maas wrote:
On Sat October 18 2008, Matthew Woehlke wrote: [E-mail was changed]
Um... which is actually another reason for local mail being default; in the event a user's mail recipient is not configured, it goes to a local spool only readable by root and that user. If Sue sets up a computer and adds an account for Bob, it's not really ideal if Bob's mail gets sent to sue@EXAMPLE.com because Bob doesn't have a recipient specified.
Sending log file contents that may contain sensitive data via unencrypted e-mail is not a good thing to do imho.
Modern MTA's can encrypt transmission if configured to.