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

Thu Sep 22 22:29:18 CEST 2011

Am 22.09.2011 21:48, schrieb andre999:
+> 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.
+>
+Please see my other mail, with the four choices, and pick one.
+
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