On Thursday 11 January 2007 09:42, Thomas Steiger wrote: >I have a question about sending mails in amanda. For example the > 'amcheck -m <config>' command sends a mail if any errors are detected. > The log file amcheck.<datestampe>.debug shows me the following content: > ... > amcheck: spawning /usr/bin/Mail in pipeline > amcheck: argument list: /usr/bin/Mail -s "<config> AMANDA PROBLEM: > FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I assume that amcheck sends the mail under the user amanda (as > configured by compilation) but it seems that the personal config file > for the MAILER (~/.mailrc) will not be used to send the mail. In the > sendmail log i can find the following error: > ruleset=trust_auth, [EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=localhost [127.0.0.1], >reject=550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... not authenticated > >But if i use the following command on the shell to send a mail (under > the user amanda): >/usr/bin/Mail -s "<config> AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE" >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >everything goes fine. > >The contents of the file .mailrc is: > set smtp=smtp://localhost > set smtp-auth=login > set smtp-auth-user=userxyz > set smtp-auth-password=************** > > >Does anybody know how i can configure amanda so that the mailer uses the >smtp auth configuration?
I don't know how to answer this question other than by my working example. I have the statement in my user amanda's crontab that states: MAILTO=amanda, and everything that this crontab does is in fact mailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], showing its from [EMAIL PROTECTED] according to the received headers. kmail in turn, has a local amanda account that fetches from /var/spool/mail/amanda, and I read it as root. Its all on the same machine, so I don't believe any smtp authorization is 'getting in the way'. If you are doing this over a piece of cat5, then obviously I'm just so much noise, sorry. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
