Re: [BackupPC-users] Prevent "EmailNoBackupEverMesg" messages from being sent

2021-01-26 Thread backuppc
Interesting idea, but that would presumably have the effect of blocking all emails whereas I would like to just block this one. Dave Sherohman wrote at about 16:51:00 +0100 on Tuesday, January 26, 2021: > When I ran into a similar case while leaving a system > partially-configured, I handled

Re: [BackupPC-users] Prevent "EmailNoBackupEverMesg" messages from being sent

2021-01-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
When I ran into a similar case while leaving a system partially-configured, I handled it by (temporarily) blanking out the "user" for that host, so there was no address for the mail to be sent to.  Worked fine, and then I re-set "user" once the host was successfully running backups. On

[BackupPC-users] Prevent "EmailNoBackupEverMesg" messages from being sent

2021-01-26 Thread backuppc
I have some hosts setup that for now have no backups -- and I am OK with that. Is there any way (on a per-host) basis to prevent the "no backup ever" message from being sent. Note, for the other messages, one can prevent them by just setting the notify period to be very long, but I don't see how