On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:43:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi
>
> I'm not running a MTA on the server I'm doing my backups... so I don't
> receive any reports by mail of my backupsessions... I'm guessing amanda
> just dumps its logs to localhost:25 to the predefined user in
> amanda.conf...
>
> any way I can make it connect to my mailserver and have it send me the
> mail through that host?
>
Amanda checks for mailx when configure is run. You can write a small
script as mailx substitute, depending on your network configuration.
Easiest way would be calling mailx over ssh. IIRC there is also a Perl
Module which speaks SMTP.
Ciao
Dietmar
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