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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> +</I> +Hi, + +IIRC mailx don't do local delivery alone. If we want to allow local +delivery but not require a full smtp server, we could use dma +(DragonFly Mail Agent [1]) which is a lightweight alternative. + +It seems sendmail-command is a provide of most of smtp package so maybe +you can add a require on it. + +regards +Julien + +[1] <A HREF="https://gitorious.org/dma">https://gitorious.org/dma</A> & <A HREF="http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/dma/">http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/dma/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008291.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] msec (nail) can't send reports to local users accounts - require an MTA? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008306.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#8298">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8298">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8298">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8298">[ 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> |