[gentoo-user] SOLVED: problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

[David Relson]

Needed to use:

PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="userid@××××××××.com mymailserver.com"

On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 21:01:24 -0400
David Relson wrote:

> I'm trying to setup mailing of emerge logs, but it's failing for
> reasons I don't grasp.
>
> In /etc/make.conf I have the following:
>
> PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="userid@××××××××.com"
>
> Running emerge, for example "emerge -1 uptimed" give the following
> message:
>
> !!! A network error occured while trying to send logmail:
> [Errno 111] Connection refused
> Sure you configured PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI correctly?
>
> As a test, from a bash command line I have run:
>
> echo "testing userid@××××××××.com" | \
> mail -s"testing  userid@××××××××.com" userid@××××××××.com
>
> The command line test works fine which indicates that the value of
> PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI is correct.  However emerge is giving the message
> shown above.
>
> Any thoughts on what I've done wrong?
>
> Regards,
>
> David