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

Mon Oct 17 18:17:35 CEST 2011

Le lundi 17 octobre 2011 16:39:14 nicolas vigier a écrit :
+[...]
+> 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.
+Agree.
+
+>  - 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.
+Hum, if i'm not wrong dma has the lower priority  (5) in the alternatives for 
+sendmail-command so it should not replace the default mta :
+postfix has 30 , sendmail has 10.
+
+
+> 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.
+Currently the default sendmail-command package is postfix which is probably too 
+much for msec.
+[...]
+
+Regards,
+-- 
+Balcaen John
+Jabber-id: mikala at jabber.littleboboy.net
+