Am 09.11.2011 21:41, schrieb Anssi Hannula:
On 09.11.2011 22:34, Florian Hubold wrote:
Am 09.11.2011 20:48, schrieb Michael Scherer:
Le mercredi 09 novembre 2011 à 19:38 +0100, Florian Hubold a écrit :
Hi there,
as Anssi made me aware msec currently has a Requires on
sendmail-command for cauldron, this was the outcome of the
last discussion about msec / MTA.
However, currently in /etc/urpmi/prefer.vendor.list postfix
is preferred as sendmail-command and mail-server.
Anssi's vote and mine is to replace preference on postfix
with dma to ensure users get dma installed with the
upgrade from Mageia 1 -> 2 and not postfix which needs
configuration.
What configuration ?
AFAIK, Postfix work out of the box for the use case of msec/cron, mail
sent to root are delivered to root mailbox, unless someone added a
aliase.
From a quick look at dma, it behave the same ( ie, it take aliase from
the same file, thus requiring the same configuration, or needing the
same declaration of a smart host ).
Wouldn't it be better to send everything to /var/log if no mta are
found ?
( ie, do something like that :
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoMTA ). We have the proper
version of cronie ( I hope ), so what prevent us ?
msec already sends everything also to /var/log, which was disregarded
in last discussion because normal users don't look there and it
slowly adds up on diskspace.
Normal users also do not read local mailboxes and the mailboxes slowly
add up on diskspace.
Well, normal users requested this.
Still this doesn't answer what to do about the migration mga1->2,
which you asked about on IRC. So what do we do about it?
Your opinion seems we should remove sendmail-command
Require from msec, and let it only write to /var/log/security
and not do anything as it was before?
Then i wonder why we had the discussion about msec
and MTA in the first place.
