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

Thu Sep 22 21:48:49 CEST 2011

Florian Hubold 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?
+
+I have postfix installed, and it works nicely with msec messages.
+So the problem with msec reports must be related to the configuration.
+(I originally installed postfix under Mandriva, so that may be a factor.)
+
+Note that in msec something like {userid}@localhost should be specified, to be 
+sent to a local user.  Maybe we should display something like
+"(use {userid}@localhost for a local user)"
+in msec.
+(I don't know offhand how to send to a local group.)
+
+Before installing postfix, the messages went to /dead.letter as you note, which 
+is awkward as it requires root privileges to remove older messages.
+
+I just noticed that sendmail is a lot smaller, so I installed it in place of 
+postfix, since that is all I use postfix for.  Hopefully it works with the 
+default config.
+It might be useful for msec to require one of postfix or sendmail.
+
+-- 
+André
+