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

[Mjules]

Le Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:35:38 +0200,
Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de> 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?
> 

Hi,

IIRC mailx don't do local delivery alone. If we want to allow local
delivery but not require a full smtp server, we could use dma
(DragonFly Mail Agent [1]) which is a lightweight alternative.

It seems sendmail-command is a provide of most of smtp package so maybe
you can add a require on it.

regards
Julien

[1] https://gitorious.org/dma & http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/dma/