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

Balcaen John mikala at mageia.org
Wed Sep 28 15:02:32 CEST 2011


Le Mercredi 28 Septembre 2011 14:42:56 Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> Le mercredi 28 septembre 2011 14:40:46, Florian Hubold a écrit :
> > So if nobody objects or sees other problem with this, i'll modify
> > the defaults in /etc/security/msec/level.* to not send email by
> > default and making dma a suggest for msec.
> 
> As I said in the other thread, I think sendmail-command is a better
> suggest than forcing the use of dma.

Well it's just  a suggests not a requires.
Also suggesting sendmail-command would requires the user to first choose 
one of  the possible alternative ( ssmtp,postfix, sendmail,mstmp or dma 
actually but we can still expect to have more mta for the end user)  
which is by default currently postfix.
Even if i personally find quite easy to configure postfix we can still 
expect than the end user can probably mis configured the mta, & configure 
it (wrongly) as an open relay.
Suggesting something like dma or mstmp or ssmtp is for msec is (from my 
point of view) far better than providing a « real » mta.


Regards,

-- 
Balcaen John


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