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<H1>[Mageia-dev] [RFC] msec (nail) can't send reports to local users accounts - require an MTA?</H1>
<B>Florian Hubold</B>
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<I>Thu Sep 22 22:29:18 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Am 22.09.2011 21:48, schrieb andre999:
><i> Florian Hubold a écrit :
</I>>><i> Hello,
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</I>>><i> during validation of validation of msec/sectool update candidates,
</I>>><i> a problem showed up: <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621</A>
</I>>><i> Seems mailx (on behalf of msec) can't send mails to local user accounts
</I>>><i> due to missing sendmail, citing one of the comments:
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</I>>><i> <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255#c25">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255#c25</A>
</I>>><i> But sendmail (or alternative) is required for local delivery.
</I>>><i> Try it out for yourself
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> $ mailx -v -s "test mail" root
</I>>><i> EOT
</I>>><i> /usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory
</I>>><i> "/home/derek/dead.letter" 9/214
</I>>><i> . . . message not sent.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> This results in msec reports ending as /dead.letter and never being
</I>>><i> sent to the user who was specified in msec configuraion or during
</I>>><i> initial installation of Mageia.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> So i added a require on sendmail to msec. But sendmail conflicts
</I>>><i> with vacation, and more importantly with postfix.
</I>>><i> So how to solve this mess? Do we want the reports to not be sent
</I>>><i> to some local user account, we can leave it like it is and i'll
</I>>><i> remove the require on sendmail.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> But if we want security reports to be sent to local users if they
</I>>><i> specify so, how to proceed further?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I have postfix installed, and it works nicely with msec messages.
</I>><i> So the problem with msec reports must be related to the configuration.
</I>><i> (I originally installed postfix under Mandriva, so that may be a factor.)
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Note that in msec something like {userid}@localhost should be specified, to
</I>><i> be sent to a local user. Maybe we should display something like
</I>><i> "(use {userid}@localhost for a local user)"
</I>><i> in msec.
</I>><i> (I don't know offhand how to send to a local group.)
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Before installing postfix, the messages went to /dead.letter as you note,
</I>><i> which is awkward as it requires root privileges to remove older messages.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I just noticed that sendmail is a lot smaller, so I installed it in place of
</I>><i> postfix, since that is all I use postfix for. Hopefully it works with the
</I>><i> default config.
</I>><i> It might be useful for msec to require one of postfix or sendmail.
</I>><i>
</I>Please see my other mail, with the four choices, and pick one.
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