This part, at least, I can explain: mutt (and mail) knows nothing about
the aliases in /etc/aliases. It only knows its own aliases (defined in
.muttrc).
Thanks a lot!
To give something back to the ML, here's how to send an attachment with
sendmail postfix (finally i got it): this is the
This part, at least, I can explain: mutt (and mail) knows nothing about
the aliases in /etc/aliases. It only knows its own aliases (defined in
.muttrc).
Any mail sent to an address without a hostname is for the local system
by default, so mail to just "root" gets @localhost appended.
The
/.
Then I create a cronjob for weekly reports and another daily cron to notify me
of errors ('BackupPC_report.pl -s')
From: orsomann...@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 10:51 AM
To: G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] "
Both mutt and mail (from mailutils) correctly translate the alias from
/et/aliases but the incoming email "To:" header turns out to be
@ instead of @
Il giorno mer 29 set 2021 alle ore 17:49 orsomann...@gmail.com <
orsomann...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> > It seems to me that this is a mail client
It seems to me that this is a mail client question, not a BackupPC
question.
I know and ... honestly: I posted here in the hope that someone could
suggest an alternative way to send notifications from BackupPC, because
I went insane trying to send attachments with sendamil provided by
Hi there,
On Wed, 29 Sep 2021, orsomannaro wrote:
To send BackupPC notifications I use "sendmail" (Postfix) forwarding the
messages to a smarthost. And when I have to send an attachment I use "mutt".
For both I would like to take advantage of "/etc/aliases" using the email
address assigned to
To send BackupPC notifications I use "sendmail" (Postfix) forwarding the
messages to a smarthost. And when I have to send an attachment I use "mutt".
For both I would like to take advantage of "/etc/aliases" using the email
address assigned to "root" as the recipient.
With "sendamil" this is
