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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ssmtp gotcha
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:46:35
Message-Id: 20080926054627.GA10701@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Ssmtp gotcha by Philip Webb
1 On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:26:13AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote
2 > After an urgent inquiry re my health from a friend, I discovered
3 > that e-mails had not been getting out of my machine for 7 days .
4 > I tracked the problem down to a change in /etc/group
5 > when I updated Ssmtp 2.61-r2 -> 2.62-r3 :
6 > there's a new entry 'ssmtp', which needs to be enabled for '<user>'.
7
8 <ELVIS>Thank you, thank you, thank you verrry, verrry much</ELVIS>
9
10 I got a totally useless error message using ssmtp after the same
11 upgrade. I reverted to 2.61-r2, and was about to send a query to the
12 list, but I checked first.
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15 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>