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

[Thomas Backlund]

Florian Hubold skrev 21.9.2011 21:35:
> Hello,
>
> during validation of validation of msec/sectool update candidates,
> a problem showed up: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621
> Seems mailx (on behalf of msec) can't send mails to local user accounts
> due to missing sendmail, citing one of the comments:
>
>      https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255#c25
>      But sendmail (or alternative) is required for local delivery.
>      Try it out for yourself
>
>      $ mailx -v -s "test mail" root
>      EOT
>      /usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory
>      "/home/derek/dead.letter" 9/214
>      . . . message not sent.
>
> This results in msec reports ending as /dead.letter and never being
> sent to the user who was specified in msec configuraion or during
> initial installation of Mageia.
>
> So i added a require on sendmail to msec. But sendmail conflicts
> with vacation, and more importantly with postfix.
> So how to solve this mess? Do we want the reports to not be sent
> to some local user account, we can leave it like it is and i'll
> remove the require on sendmail.
>
> But if we want security reports to be sent to local users if they
> specify so, how to proceed further?
>

Require or Suggest sendmail-command

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Thomas