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

Fri Sep 23 04:43:58 CEST 2011

Balcaen John a écrit :
+> Le Jeudi 22 Septembre 2011 22:32:25 Florian Hubold a écrit :
+> [...]
+>>
+>> You didn't seem to understand the part about nail.
+>> nail aka mailx is an MTA and already in a default install, just
+>> currently it doesn't work
+>> without sendmail, it seems. nail is currently required by msec, so
+>> msec per definition "needs" an MTA.
+> Well if i'm not wrong nail or mailx is an MUA (Mail User Agent) not an
+> MTA (Mail Transfer Agent).
+
+You're right -- so we'll have to keep nail/mailx (or an equivalent) for the MUA 
+side of the process.
+Although nail is supposed to handle both sides, (according to the description), 
+it would likely be easier to add dma/dragonfly than to try fixing nail, which 
+does the user agent side well.  But if the MTA side of nail could be readily 
+fixed ...
+
+Since they've changed the name of nail to mailx upstream (according to the 
+description), shouldn't we be packaging it as mailx now ?  (With a provides 
+nail, I assume.)
+
+-- 
+André
+