[Mageia-dev] [RFC] msec (nail) can't send reports to local users accounts - require an MTA?

Mon Oct 17 16:39:14 CEST 2011

On Sun, 16 Oct 2011, Florian Hubold wrote:
+
+> Well, if there are no other proposals or no patch for this proposal till 
+> next weekend,
+> i'll drop the change to msec default settings to not send email by default
+> and will issue the update as is.
+>
+> Seems to me noone is interested in msec anymore.
+
+I think that :
+ - changing the default configuration in an update is wrong. If it's
+   better that msec do not send emails by default, I think this change
+   should be done in cauldron only, maybe with some note about this change
+   in the release notes for Mageia 2.
+ - adding a require or suggest on dma is wrong, especially in an update
+
+Installing dma with the update will silently replace /usr/sbin/sendmail
+to use dma instead of the previously installed mta, potentially breaking
+email for all programs using the sendmail command.
+
+If msec needs the sendmail command to send its email, it should require
+sendmail-command, not dma or any other mta in particular, so that the
+user can decide what he wants to use to send his emails.
+And if we want the users to have a working mta by default, it's the job
+of the installer to do it, not the msec package.
+
+