On 7 Sep 2005 at 8:07, Phil Stracchino wrote: > Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: > > Is anyone using another mailer with bacula apart from bsmtp ?? > > Is it simply a matter of replacing bsmtp with mailx in Messages directive ?? > > You need to replace the bsmtp command lines with something appropriate > to the mailer you're using. Depending on the command-line arguments it > takes, that may or may not be a drop-in replacement. > > For example, I use mutt for this purpose, and the default commands: > > > # mailcommand = "/opt/bacula/bin/bsmtp -h smtp.caerllewys.net -f Bacula > -s \"%n \(%l\) %e\" %r" > # operatorcommand = "/opt/bacula/bin/bsmtp -h smtp.caerllewys.net -f > Bacula -s \"Bacula: %n requires attention\" %r" > > change to: > > mailcommand = "/usr/bin/mutt -F /root/.muttrc-bacula -s \"%n \(%l\) > %e\" %r" > operatorcommand = "/usr/bin/mutt -F /root/.muttrc-bacula -s \"Bacula: > %n requires attention\" %r" > > Here, the changes are as follows: > > - mutt does not require the mailhost to be specified > - instead of specifying the 'From' name, with mutt I tell it to load a > .muttrc file in which the 'From' name is set. > > On my system, mailx is a link to /usr/bin/mail. You cannot just > directly plug it in to the existing commands, because it has no -h > option and -f has a different meaning than it does to bsmtp.
Hmmm, some more examples would be a good idea. Especially when combined with pager commands or something similar. For example: it doesn't have to be a mail command. It could be anything from the command line.... -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
