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

Wed Nov 9 21:34:23 CET 2011

Am 09.11.2011 20:48, schrieb Michael Scherer:
+> 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 ?
+>
+msec already sends everything also to /var/log, which was disregarded
+in last discussion because normal users don't look there and it
+slowly adds up on diskspace.
+
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