----- Original Message -----
I created a new bug [1] that explains that ssmtp is sending all cron
jobs output to an external SMTP server. I marked it as a security bug,
the security tag was removed and it was recommend to make it public,
something I can't do. I will resume the problem here, because there are
comments that says that it isn't a security bug, I disagree:
1- Fedora 20 shipped with the feature of not running a SMTP server by
default, I was fine with it because I don't need to send emails or
receive emails locally using it.
2- an update pulled ssmtp
Apr 20 19:06:14 Installed: ssmtp-2.64-11.fc20.x86_64
Apr 20 19:06:15 Updated: 1:smartmontools-6.2-5.fc20.x86_64
3- ssmtp is configured by default to send emails to a host named mail
4- If a cron jobs runs the email is sent to mail.[your.domain] without
you ever configuring that.
This is certainly not a reasonable default configuration for Fedora.
While I think that it is not a reasonable default configuration for ssmtp at all, I could
be persuaded otherwise; but in that case, it should never be installed by _anything_ that
isn’t an explicit user’s choice (i.e. no dependencies direct or indirect, no comps group
presence, and ideally/overzealously? an automated test that makes installing ssmtp in a
default product configuration a release blocker).
Mirek