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. -- Anssi Hannula
