[Mageia-dev] [RFC] prefer dma rather than postfix in prefer.vendor.list for msec mga1 -> mga2 upgrade

Wed Nov 9 20:48:36 CET 2011

Le mercredi 09 novembre 2011 à 19:38 +0100, Florian Hubold a écrit :
+> Hi there,
+> 
+> as Anssi made me aware msec currently has a Requires on
+> sendmail-command for cauldron, this was the outcome of the
+> last discussion about msec / MTA.
+> However, currently in /etc/urpmi/prefer.vendor.list postfix
+> is preferred as sendmail-command and mail-server.
+> 
+> Anssi's vote and mine is to replace preference on postfix
+> with dma to ensure users get dma installed with the
+> upgrade from Mageia 1 -> 2 and not postfix which needs
+> configuration.
+
+What configuration ? 
+AFAIK, Postfix work out of the box for the use case of msec/cron, mail
+sent to root are delivered to root mailbox, unless someone added a
+aliase.
+
+>From a quick look at dma, it behave the same ( ie, it take aliase from
+the same file, thus requiring the same configuration, or needing the
+same declaration of a smart host ). 
+
+Wouldn't it be better to send everything to /var/log if no mta are
+found ? 
+( ie, do something like that :
+http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoMTA ). We have the proper
+version of cronie ( I hope ), so what prevent us ?
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+