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

Wed Sep 21 20:59:05 CEST 2011

Le Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:35:38 +0200,
+Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de> a écrit :
+
+> 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?
+> 
+
+Hi,
+
+IIRC mailx don't do local delivery alone. If we want to allow local
+delivery but not require a full smtp server, we could use dma
+(DragonFly Mail Agent [1]) which is a lightweight alternative.
+
+It seems sendmail-command is a provide of most of smtp package so maybe
+you can add a require on it.
+
+regards
+Julien
+
+[1] https://gitorious.org/dma & http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/dma/
+