Re: [gentoo-user] Ssmtp gotcha

[Mark Shields]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org>wrote:

> On Monday 22 September 2008, 06:26, Philip Webb wrote:
> > After an urgent inquiry re my health from a friend, I discovered
> > that e-mails had not been getting out of my machine for  7 days .
> > I tracked the problem down to a change in  /etc/group
> > when I updated Ssmtp  2.61-r2  ->  2.62-r3 :
> > there's a new entry 'ssmtp', which needs to be enabled for '<user>'.
> > There was  1 line  in the file in  /var/log/emerge-logs/ ,
> > which didn't explicitly warn that sysadmin action was required,
> > but nothing anywhere else AFAICS, incl in the 'man' file.
> >
> > Has anyone else got caught by this ?
>
> Yes, I saw that. I had to add the users who use ssmtp to the ssmtp group
> (or, alternatively, chmod 755 the binary). There is a bug on b.g.o.:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237932
>
> which links to the interesting one:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187841
>
>
I was wondering about this.  I ended up making it world executable like you
mentioned.  The day before I went on vacation the Gentoo box at work stopped
regularly e-mailing.  What a pain.

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- Mark Shields