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

Wed Sep 28 15:28:38 CEST 2011

Le mercredi 28 septembre 2011 15:02:32, Balcaen John a écrit :
+> Le Mercredi 28 Septembre 2011 14:42:56 Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> > Le mercredi 28 septembre 2011 14:40:46, Florian Hubold a écrit :
+> > > So if nobody objects or sees other problem with this, i'll modify
+> > > the defaults in /etc/security/msec/level.* to not send email by
+> > > default and making dma a suggest for msec.
+> > 
+> > As I said in the other thread, I think sendmail-command is a better
+> > suggest than forcing the use of dma.
+> 
+> Well it's just  a suggests not a requires.
+> Also suggesting sendmail-command would requires the user to first choose
+> one of  the possible alternative ( ssmtp,postfix, sendmail,mstmp or dma
+> actually but we can still expect to have more mta for the end user)
+> which is by default currently postfix.
+> Even if i personally find quite easy to configure postfix we can still
+> expect than the end user can probably mis configured the mta, & configure
+> it (wrongly) as an open relay.
+> Suggesting something like dma or mstmp or ssmtp is for msec is (from my
+> point of view) far better than providing a « real » mta.
+> 
+> 
+
+In fact, we could have dma by default while letting other people choose 
+another mail server and thus not install dma.
+
+During a system installation, no question is asked, the first choice is always 
+taken. This first choice could be made to be dma. This is something we can 
+change in the meta-task package (/etc/urpmi/prefer.vendor.list).
+
+Of course, this would mean than any package requiring sendmail-command would 
+see dma first in the list. I don't know if it would be a good think or not. I 
+tend to think yes, because for standard users dma will be preferred whereas 
+experience admins will choose the MTA they want.
+
+So if we had not an update to issue, this would be my choice. Suggest 
+sendmail-command and make sure that dma is preferred when there's an automatic 
+selection.
+
+If what I say here makes sense, maybe in Mageia 1 msec could suggest dma and 
+in Cauldron sendmail-command, + we would alter meta-task ? If not, then let's 
+go for dma and forget my comments.
+
+Best regards
+
+Samuel
+