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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>><i> Hi, +</I>><i> +</I>><i> IIRC mailx don't do local delivery alone. If we want to allow local +</I>><i> delivery but not require a full smtp server, we could use dma +</I>><i> (DragonFly Mail Agent [1]) which is a lightweight alternative. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It seems sendmail-command is a provide of most of smtp package so maybe +</I>><i> you can add a require on it. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> regards +</I>><i> Julien +</I>><i> +</I>><i> [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> +</I>><i> +</I>The main problem when adding sendmail-command (or another MTA) is +that at least every default installation of Mageia 1 will get an MTA installed. +The question is, do we really want to force this on our users? + +As Luc Menut already mentioned, msec works fine without an MTA, and +that all reports should be available under /var/log/security. +Also his proposal to change default msec config to not send reports +by email sounds sensible. So if nobody objects, i'll remove the require +on sendmail-command and change default msec config. +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008298.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] msec (nail) can't send reports to local users accounts - require an MTA? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008307.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#8306">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8306">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8306">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8306">[ 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> |