Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron and ssmtp

[Troy Curtis Jr]

On 9/15/06, David Grant <davidgrant@×××××.com> 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 <davidgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
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> > On 9/14/06, David Grant < davidgrant@×××××.com > 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:
> >
> > 1. echo test |mail -s "testing ssmtp to external" davidgrant@×××××.com
> > 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
> >
> > 1. The first one worked. So ssmtp can send to external addresses fine.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > It looks like maybe ssmtp isn't seeing my revaliases file? Or maybe I'm
> not using is properly?
> >
> > david:someuserNOSPAM@×××××.com:smtp.vc.shawcable.net
> > sarah:someuserNOSPAM@×××××.com :smtp.vc.shawcable.net
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> > --
> > David Grant
> > http://www.davidgrant.ca
>
>
>
> --
> David Grant
> http://www.davidgrant.ca

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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