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

Wed Sep 21 20:35:38 CEST 2011

Hello,
+
+during validation of validation of msec/sectool update candidates,
+a problem showed up: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621
+Seems mailx (on behalf of msec) can't send mails to local user accounts
+due to missing sendmail, citing one of the comments:
+
+    https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255#c25
+    But sendmail (or alternative) is required for local delivery.
+    Try it out for yourself
+
+    $ mailx -v -s "test mail" root
+    EOT
+    /usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory
+    "/home/derek/dead.letter" 9/214
+    . . . message not sent.
+
+This results in msec reports ending as /dead.letter and never being
+sent to the user who was specified in msec configuraion or during
+initial installation of Mageia.
+
+So i added a require on sendmail to msec. But sendmail conflicts
+with vacation, and more importantly with postfix.
+So how to solve this mess? Do we want the reports to not be sent
+to some local user account, we can leave it like it is and i'll
+remove the require on sendmail.
+
+But if we want security reports to be sent to local users if they
+specify so, how to proceed further?
+
+