Adam Hardy wrote: > popcon has installed itself as a crontab.weekly job which is executed by > user root, I presume, but I get a 'mail delivery failed' turn up in my > user account, not in root. I checked the config for popcon and I can see > how it is picking up my user account. How can it be doing that?
You probably have a /etc/aliases containing root: youraccount popularity-contest does fall back to trying to send email if submission by http fails. > Secondly I tried setting up an MTA to accept the email from popcon, when > it tries via email, and I picked msmtp-mta and configured it with my > email provider settings, but I can't see how anything can pick up msmtp > without some more config, but I can't see anything relevant in the man > pages. Am I on the right track, and what is the next step? popcon sends mails in the standard way, by running the sendmail command, which should be provided by your MTA. -- see shy jo
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