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

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le mercredi 28 septembre 2011 15:02:32, Balcaen John a écrit :
> 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.
> 
> 

In fact, we could have dma by default while letting other people choose 
another mail server and thus not install dma.

During a system installation, no question is asked, the first choice is always 
taken. This first choice could be made to be dma. This is something we can 
change in the meta-task package (/etc/urpmi/prefer.vendor.list).

Of course, this would mean than any package requiring sendmail-command would 
see dma first in the list. I don't know if it would be a good think or not. I 
tend to think yes, because for standard users dma will be preferred whereas 
experience admins will choose the MTA they want.

So if we had not an update to issue, this would be my choice. Suggest 
sendmail-command and make sure that dma is preferred when there's an automatic 
selection.

If what I say here makes sense, maybe in Mageia 1 msec could suggest dma and 
in Cauldron sendmail-command, + we would alter meta-task ? If not, then let's 
go for dma and forget my comments.

Best regards

Samuel