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

[Florian Hubold]

Am 22.09.2011 21:48, schrieb andre999:
> Florian Hubold a écrit :
>> 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?
>
> I have postfix installed, and it works nicely with msec messages.
> So the problem with msec reports must be related to the configuration.
> (I originally installed postfix under Mandriva, so that may be a factor.)
>
> Note that in msec something like {userid}@localhost should be specified, to 
> be sent to a local user.  Maybe we should display something like
> "(use {userid}@localhost for a local user)"
> in msec.
> (I don't know offhand how to send to a local group.)
>
> Before installing postfix, the messages went to /dead.letter as you note, 
> which is awkward as it requires root privileges to remove older messages.
>
> I just noticed that sendmail is a lot smaller, so I installed it in place of 
> postfix, since that is all I use postfix for.  Hopefully it works with the 
> default config.
> It might be useful for msec to require one of postfix or sendmail.
>
Please see my other mail, with the four choices, and pick one.