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

[Florian Hubold]

Am 23.09.2011 04:43, schrieb andre999:
> Balcaen John a écrit :
>> Le Jeudi 22 Septembre 2011 22:32:25 Florian Hubold a écrit :
>> [...]
>>>
>>> You didn't seem to understand the part about nail.
>>> nail aka mailx is an MTA and already in a default install, just
>>> currently it doesn't work
>>> without sendmail, it seems. nail is currently required by msec, so
>>> msec per definition "needs" an MTA.
>> Well if i'm not wrong nail or mailx is an MUA (Mail User Agent) not an
>> MTA (Mail Transfer Agent).
>
> You're right -- so we'll have to keep nail/mailx (or an equivalent) for the 
> MUA side of the process.
> Although nail is supposed to handle both sides, (according to the 
> description), it would likely be easier to add dma/dragonfly than to try 
> fixing nail, which does the user agent side well.  But if the MTA side of 
> nail could be readily fixed ...
Do you have a patch at hand? Then i'd assume, yes, can be fixed in a short time.
>
> Since they've changed the name of nail to mailx upstream (according to the 
> description), shouldn't we be packaging it as mailx now ?  (With a provides 
> nail, I assume.)
>
Then please do a bugreport for it then.