Package: msmtp Version: 1.4.15-1 Severity: normal Hello,
I noted that the msmtp is not working with the crontab. I use now the nbsmtp, to replace, and crontab can send email. simple test : * * * * * echo "yes"|mail robert crontab test did not work So the configuration of the machine: I installed those stuffs: Code: dpkg -l | grep msm ii msmtp 1.4.15-1 light SMTP client with support for server pr and mutt Code: $ dpkg -l | grep mail ii iceape-mailnews 1.0.13~pre080614i-0etch1 Iceape Mail & Newsgroups and Address Book ii kmail 4:3.5.9-5 KDE Email client ii kmailcvt 4:3.5.9-5 KDE KMail mail folder converter ii libksieve0 4:3.5.9-5 KDE mail/news message filtering library ii libktnef1 4:3.5.9-5 Library for handling KTNEF email attachments ii libmailtools-perl 2.03-1 Manipulate email in perl programs ii libmailutils1 1:1.2+dfsg1-4 GNU Mail abstraction library rc mailutils 1:1.2+dfsg1-4 GNU mailutils utilities for handling mail ii metamail 2.7-54 implementation of MIME ii mime-support 3.44-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap', and sup ii mutt 1.5.18-6 text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, ii procmail 3.22-16 Versatile e-mail processor rc sendmail-base 8.14.3-5 powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Trans rc sendmail-bin 8.14.3-5 powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Trans ii sendmail-cf 8.14.3-5 powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Trans then the file of .muttrc: Code: # Boring details set realname = "frenchn00b" set from = "[email protected]" set use_from = yes set envelope_from ="yes" # Use a signature #set signature="~/.signature" # Use msmtp rather than sendmail. Check that # the path is correct for your system: set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp" # If not set in ~/.bashrc: set spoolfile = /var/spool/mail/frenchn00b $ cat .msmtprc Code: #Gmail account account gmail host smtp.gmail.com from [email protected] auth on tls on tls_certcheck off user [email protected] password THEPASSWORDINCLEAR port 587 then do this: Code: mutt -e 'set content_type="text/html"' [email protected] -s "subject hello" < page.htm and it should work to send emails, but but I can see successfully emails, really, from the shell. bash. crontab does not like it. Any single trials from teh mutt or whatever into crontab causes problem. -- Install info: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/echo-mypage.htm-mutt-s-hello-news-myemailgmail.com-624938/page2.html Best regards -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-bpo.1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages msmtp depends on: ii debconf [debcon 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.41.3-1 common error description library ii libgcrypt11 1.4.1-1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libgnutls26 2.4.2-6+lenny1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgpg-error0 1.4-2 library for common error values an ii libgsasl7 0.2.26-2 GNU SASL library ii libidn11 1.8+20080606-1 GNU libidn library, implementation ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libntlm0 0.3.13-1 NTLM authentication library ii libtasn1-3 1.4-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii ucf 3.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages msmtp recommends: ii ca-certificates 20080809 Common CA certificates msmtp suggests no packages. -- debconf information: msmtp/host: msmtp/tls: false msmtp/maildomain: msmtp/sysconfig: false msmtp/auto_from: true msmtp/port: 25 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
