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

Fri Sep 23 11:43:32 CEST 2011

Am 23.09.2011 11:21, schrieb Johnny A. Solbu:
+> On Friday 23 September 2011 10:52, Florian Hubold wrote:
+>> Still, you didn't tell for which choice you vote.
+> I vote for still sending mail, if an address or username is provided for msec to send mail to.
+That's a conditional. Do you have a patch for that?
+>
+>> You don't want msec to require an MTA,
+>> but seems you want msec to send reports to an email adress if you enter one.
+> I ask what happens if one does enter an address, under the new proposed config.
+> Today root get all reports unless one enters a username or a mail address. I understand it to mean that under the proposed no mail config it's just stored in logs.
+If you only enter an email adress in msec config file, and have no MTA installed,
+it would be the same as now, the reports ending in /dead.letter.
+If you have an MTA installed (and configured) mail should be sent.
+
+>
+> But if one does enter a username or a mail address, it should send mail to the configured user or mail address. And then the setup/installation could prompt for an MTA to be installed if one haven't selected one. And possibly give the user a list of MTAs to use, perhaps with the default MTA, Postfix, preselected.
+>
+> I guess what I'm saying is, configure msec to Not send mail if an MTA is not found and send if one is found.
+> Not shure how much work that would require thou. :-)=
+>
+Feel free to send a patch for that.
+