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

Fri Sep 23 12:49:41 CEST 2011

Johnny A. Solbu a écrit :
+> 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.
+>
+>    
+>> 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.
+>
+> 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.
+>    
+
+Currently, entering a userid alone does not work.  It has to be an email 
+address.
+Note however that userid at localhost _is_ an email address.
+We could change it to accept only a valid format email address or a 
+valid userid, in the latter case msec adding the @localhost part.  IIRC, 
+@localhost must be in a certain config file, which is the case by default.
+
+> 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. :-)=
+>    
+
+The best solution is to ensure that an MTA is always installed.
+Be it a fixed nail or dragonfly (dma) or whatever.
+If an email isn't wanted, it can be turned off now.  But it is currently 
+on by default even if no email address is entered.  In which case we get 
+the /dead.letter delivery to root.
+
+-- 
+André
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