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

Fri Sep 23 11:03:32 CEST 2011

Am 23.09.2011 04:43, schrieb andre999:
+> 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 ...
+Do you have a patch at hand? Then i'd assume, yes, can be fixed in a short time.
+>
+> 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.)
+>
+Then please do a bugreport for it then.
+