Walter Dnes <[email protected]> [15-05-24 05:52]:
> On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 03:34:09AM +0200, [email protected] wrote
> >
> > What reasons disable fcron to send mail to me or root?
>
> By convention, it seems that all MTAs have symlinks at
> /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail. Programs
> that automatically send email, expect to find "sendmail" symlinks. Do
> you have those symlinks from msmtp?
>
> My most embarressing linux moment was when ssmtp sent output from
> verbose cron jobs to root (at me). My ssmtp was configured to simply
> re-route everything to my ISP's MTA. The net result was that the output
> went to root@my_ISP "They were not amused". That was when I learned
> about setting the destination for all userids < 10 to myself. I also
> ran a script designed to break the symlinks and prevent portage from
> making sendmail symlinks...
>
> rm -r /usr/bin/sendmail
> rm -r /usr/lib/sendmail
> rm -r /usr/sbin/sendmail
> mkdir /usr/bin/sendmail
> touch /usr/bin/sendmail/.keep
> mkdir /usr/lib/sendmail
> touch /usr/lib/sendmail/.keep
> mkdir /usr/sbin/sendmail
> touch /usr/sbin/sendmail/.keep
>
> That worked great for a few years. Portage output an error message
> about being unable to symlink, but continued. Then portage changed the
> failure mode to shut down portage when it was unable to create
> symlinks... AAARRRGGGHHH. Now when that happens, I remove the
> "sendmail" directories, run emerge to build ssmtp, and then run the
> script to break the symlinks. I know that it's redundant, after setting
> destination for uid < 10, but "once burned, twice shy".
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
>
Hi Walter,
This is, what I have found:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 11 19:25 /usr/bin/sendmail -> /usr/bin/msmtp
My email address (see above) is different from my userid on my Linux
box and (personally) I dont have configured anything which alias
my userid to my email address or vice versa.
I will now try to let fcron to mail to me (my userid so to speak)
instead of root since the fcrontab is alos mine.
When I do something like this
cat <file> | mail <my userid>
or
cat <file> | mail <my userid>@localhost
I get
send-mail: recipient address <my userid> not accepted by the server
send-mail: server message: 501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments
send-mail: could not send mail (account default from /home/<my
userid>/.msmtprc)
Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 65
send-mail: recipient address <my userid>@localhost not accepted by the
server
send-mail: server message: 550-Requested action not taken: mailbox
unavailable
send-mail: server message: 550 invalid DNS MX or A/AAAA resource record
send-mail: could not send mail (account default from /home/<my
userid>/.msmtprc)
Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 65
Question for me is: Is "server" my ISP's server? Or a default error
message" or something which is exspected to be installed at my Linux
box?
By the way:
> That was when I learned
> about setting the destination for all userids < 10 to myself. I also
> ran a script designed to break the symlinks and prevent portage from
> making sendmail symlinks...
It may be, that I have to learn it too. ;)
What shall I do to acchive this?
Best regards,
Meino
