090106 Willie Wong wrote: > this suggests that either cron or your mailer is misconfigured. > From the logs, you are running ssmtp. Check the config files for it > to see why mail intended for r...@localhost > is delivered to r...@ca.inter.net.
/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf has the lines (the last refers to my ISP): ... # The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000 # Make this empty to disable rewriting. root=postmaster ... # The full hostname hostname=ca.inter.net ... It looks as if this combination causes it to send to r...@ca.inter.net . I can't find a man file for ssmtp.conf , only for ssmtp , tho' the latter says the former should exist, so I can't check in any more detail just how the lines above work, eg what "rewriting" refers to or how the hostname is used. > And check /etc/crontab to see whether the MAILTO field is set properly > to where you want the mail to be delivered. MAILTO=root this is for system cron jobs, which are run by & for root. > Also, I don't know which implementation of cron you are using, > but if your crontab is under <userid>, ... Yes, with mail that's necessary for security. > ... then usually cron will demand notification e-mails sent to <userid>: > Try 'ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs/' : > is your user's crontab owned by root for some reason? No : root:550 crontabs> ls -l -rw------- 1 purslow crontab 234 2007-11-04 23:46 purslow > I have my fetchmail line as > /usr/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null > so I only get e-mails when it writes to stderr (when there's an error). That looks like the quick fix. > Writing "fetchmail -s" instead shouldn't be a problem. > Why do you think it needs a script? I didn't know if cron will ignore stuff after the space otherwise, but obviously it does, if your line above works. > I still think you MTA is misconfigured for local mail. Like you, I'ld like to understand the real cause of the problem: Gentoo is for people like us ... (smile) Rewriting .fetchmailrc using fetchmailconf thro'out didn't help, so that's one set of possibilities ruled out & I will try the suggestions above (thanks) next. Your or others' further comments are very welcome. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
