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

Wed Sep 21 20:48:30 CEST 2011

Florian Hubold skrev 21.9.2011 21:35:
+> 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?
+>
+
+Require or Suggest sendmail-command
+
+--
+Thomas
+
+
+