On 9/15/06, David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Forget it, I gave up on ssmtp as it is the problem. I've now gone to postfix
and it is so much easier. Setting up postfix involed 3 simple steps. Setting
relayhost in /etc/postfix/main.cf and creating .forward files in root and
normal user directories. ssmtp should be tree-cleaned. It's not even
maintained upstream and it sucks wind.
David
On 9/14/06, David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Hmm, it turns out that setting MAILTO=root in my own user's crontab
makes it send mail. MAILTO=root is already in /etc/cron/crontab by the way
so this is all very strange.
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> I tried setting MAILTO=david and that didn't work. I decided ssmtp might
be the problem, so I isolated it and tried this:
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> 1. echo test |mail -s "testing ssmtp to external" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 2. echo test |mail -s "testing ssmtp mail to root" root
> 3. echo test |mail -s "testing ssmtp mail to david" david
> 4. echo test |mail -s "testing ssmtp mail to sarah" sarah
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> 1. The first one worked. So ssmtp can send to external addresses fine.
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> 2. The second one worked. So ssmtp can look at the "root=" command (which
tells it where to send mail to user ids < 1000) properly and send to
whatever root= is set to.
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> 3. The third one didn't work. So for some reason I can't send mail to a
normal user. But maybe something is weird with that user. I used to run a
mail server on this machine with that user
(postfix/procmail/blah/blah/blah) so maybe some leftover
thing was screwing things up.
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> 4. Sending mail to this user didn't work either. The users in 3. and 4.
are both in /etc/ssmtp/revaliases. User 3 is in the 'mail' group (does that
even matter) and I tried user 4. with and without that user in the
revaliases file.
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> It looks like maybe ssmtp isn't seeing my revaliases file? Or maybe I'm
not using is properly?
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> david:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:smtp.vc.shawcable.net
> sarah:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :smtp.vc.shawcable.net
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> David Grant
> http://www.davidgrant.ca
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I totally agree. I have never even been able to get it to compile
cleanly. It was the first failed emerge that I had to troubleshoot
when I started using Gentoo. Later, it prompted me to drop to good
'ol CLI install when I was doing the 2006.0 install. Postfix has
always been good to me. I am glad to see that someone else is as fed
up with it as I am, why is it still around??
Troy
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