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But sendmail conflicts +</I>><i> with vacation, and more importantly with postfix. +</I>><i> So how to solve this mess? Do we want the reports to not be sent +</I>><i> to some local user account, we can leave it like it is and i'll +</I>><i> remove the require on sendmail. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> But if we want security reports to be sent to local users if they +</I>><i> specify so, how to proceed further? +</I> +I have postfix installed, and it works nicely with msec messages. +So the problem with msec reports must be related to the configuration. +(I originally installed postfix under Mandriva, so that may be a factor.) + +Note that in msec something like {userid}@localhost should be specified, to be +sent to a local user. Maybe we should display something like +"(use {userid}@localhost for a local user)" +in msec. +(I don't know offhand how to send to a local group.) + +Before installing postfix, the messages went to /dead.letter as you note, which +is awkward as it requires root privileges to remove older messages. + +I just noticed that sendmail is a lot smaller, so I installed it in place of +postfix, since that is all I use postfix for. Hopefully it works with the +default config. +It might be useful for msec to require one of postfix or sendmail. + +-- +André +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008488.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] msec (nail) can't send reports to local users accounts - require an MTA? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008322.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] msec (nail) can't send reports to local users accounts - require an MTA? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8320">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8320">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8320">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8320">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |