Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-09 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 9 April 2020 09:53:07 BST Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Thursday, April 9, 2020 10:49 AM, Michael wrote: > > I have not configured nullmailer to know its internals, but assuming you > > have not removed '127.0.0.1 localhost' from your /etc/hosts it should > > work. > interesting.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-09 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 9, 2020 10:49 AM, Michael wrote: > I have not configured nullmailer to know its internals, but assuming you have > not removed '127.0.0.1 localhost' from your /etc/hosts it should work. interesting. i had (no work): `127.0.0.1localhost myhostname` but it only worked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-09 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 11:01:45 BST Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Friday, April 3, 2020 10:42 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > nullmailer is now configured, and test with`echo "Subject: ..." | sendmail > > -v m...@dom.com` works. but, smartd's test mail is not working, with this > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-07 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Friday, April 3, 2020 10:42 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > nullmailer is now configured, and test with`echo "Subject: ..." | sendmail -v > m...@dom.com` works. but, smartd's test mail is not working, with this error: > > Apr 03 10:15:09 blah smartd[219171]: Test of to m...@dom.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-04 Thread Michael
On Friday, 3 April 2020 20:48:12 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 4/2/20 10:47 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > wow, didn't know sendmail's syntax was so hard it needed a compiler > > > > :D thank you very much for your help. highly appreciated. > > I think that's an inaccurate statement. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 4/3/20 4:01 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: If you want to become an ultra-professional, that's fine. If you just want to be able to send mail interactively from mutt... OK, that's a bad example now that mutt has built-in SMTP client capabilities. How about ... if you only want to get email

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 4/2/20 10:47 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: wow, didn't know sendmail's syntax was so hard it needed a compiler :D thank you very much for your help. highly appreciated. I think that's an inaccurate statement. First, m4 is a macro package, not a compiler. Second, the macros are used to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 4/2/20 8:23 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: It's very powerful but the configuration file format is almost impossible to understand, so people developed an m4 application that accepted a _slightly_ less cryptic language and generated the sendmail configuration file. The configuration file is far

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 4/2/20 6:26 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: though i'm a bit curious about sendmail (if your time allows). Feel free to ask questions about sendmail. I'll do my best to answer. do you mean the ebuild "sendmail"? or the command "sendmail"? In this context, ebuild as a reference to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 4/2/20 8:18 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: Then DO NOT use sendmail. Sendmail is only for the ultra-professional who already knows how to configure it (not joking). I take exception to that for multiple reasons: 1) Bootstrapping - you can't learn something without actually using it. 2) I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 6:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Nullmailer is also a good option with the added bonus of queueing > outbound mail while you're offline.: nullmailer is now configured, and test with `echo "Subject: ..." | sendmail -v m...@dom.com` works. but, smartd's test mail is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-02 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Friday, April 3, 2020 6:23 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-04-03, Caveman Al Toraboran toraboracave...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > though i'm a bit curious about sendmail (if your > > time allows). do you mean the ebuild "sendmail"? > > Yes. I meant the program provided by the "sendmail"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-02 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 6:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Then DO NOT use sendmail. Sendmail is only for the ultra-professional > who already knows how to configure it (not joking). > > If all your mail gets sent via a single SMTP server at your ISP (or > wherever), then Sendmail is definitely

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-02 Thread John Covici
On Thu, 02 Apr 2020 07:03:01 -0400, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:20 AM, Ian Zimmerman > wrote: > > > On 2020-04-01 03:51, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > > > > why can't `mail` send emails? below is some info. > > > > Normally the mail program works by execing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-02 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:20 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-04-01 03:51, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > > why can't `mail` send emails? below is some info. > > Normally the mail program works by execing /usr/sbin/sendmail to to the > hard part :-P Do you have it? It doesn't have to be