On Thursday, 9 April 2020 09:53:07 BST Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> On Thursday, April 9, 2020 10:49 AM, Michael
wrote:
> > I have not configured nullmailer to know its internals, but assuming you
> > have not removed '127.0.0.1 localhost' from your /etc/hosts it should
> > work.
> interesting.
On Thursday, April 9, 2020 10:49 AM, Michael wrote:
> I have not configured nullmailer to know its internals, but assuming you have
> not removed '127.0.0.1 localhost' from your /etc/hosts it should work.
interesting. i had (no work):
`127.0.0.1localhost myhostname`
but it only worked w
On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 11:01:45 BST Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> On Friday, April 3, 2020 10:42 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran
wrote:
> > nullmailer is now configured, and test with`echo "Subject: ..." | sendmail
> > -v m...@dom.com` works. but, smartd's test mail is not working, with this
> > error
On Friday, April 3, 2020 10:42 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran
wrote:
> nullmailer is now configured, and test with`echo "Subject: ..." | sendmail -v
> m...@dom.com` works. but, smartd's test mail is not working, with this error:
>
> Apr 03 10:15:09 blah smartd[219171]: Test of to m...@dom.com produc
On Friday, 3 April 2020 20:48:12 BST Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 4/2/20 10:47 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> > wow, didn't know sendmail's syntax was so hard it needed a compiler
> >
> > :D thank you very much for your help. highly appreciated.
>
> I think that's an inaccurate statement.
>
> Fi
On 4/3/20 4:01 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
If you want to become an ultra-professional, that's fine. If you
just want to be able to send mail interactively from mutt...
OK, that's a bad example now that mutt has built-in SMTP client
capabilities.
How about ... if you only want to get email off
On 2020-04-03, Grant Taylor wrote:
> (20)ProTip: You really do want local outbound queueing /somewhere/ on box.
>
> You don't want your web application to error out when it can't reach
> it's SMTP server. You don't want t loose that receipt for the
> transaction that the customer just made.
On 4/2/20 10:47 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
wow, didn't know sendmail's syntax was so hard it needed a compiler
:D thank you very much for your help. highly appreciated.
I think that's an inaccurate statement.
First, m4 is a macro package, not a compiler.
Second, the macros are used to re
On 4/2/20 8:23 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
It's very powerful but the configuration file format is almost
impossible to understand, so people developed an m4 application that
accepted a _slightly_ less cryptic language and generated the
sendmail configuration file.
The configuration file is far f
On 4/2/20 6:26 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
though i'm a bit curious about sendmail (if your time allows).
Feel free to ask questions about sendmail. I'll do my best to answer.
do you mean the ebuild "sendmail"? or the command "sendmail"?
In this context, ebuild as a reference to the MT
On 4/2/20 8:18 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Then DO NOT use sendmail. Sendmail is only for the
ultra-professional who already knows how to configure it (not
joking).
I take exception to that for multiple reasons:
1) Bootstrapping - you can't learn something without actually using it.
2) I've b
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 6:18 PM, Grant Edwards
wrote:
> Nullmailer is also a good option with the added bonus of queueing
> outbound mail while you're offline.:
nullmailer is now configured, and test with `echo "Subject: ..." | sendmail -v
m...@dom.com` works. but, smartd's test mail is not
On Friday, April 3, 2020 6:23 AM, Grant Edwards
wrote:
> On 2020-04-03, Caveman Al Toraboran toraboracave...@protonmail.com wrote:
>
> > though i'm a bit curious about sendmail (if your
> > time allows). do you mean the ebuild "sendmail"?
>
> Yes. I meant the program provided by the "sendmail" e
On 2020-04-03, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> though i'm a bit curious about sendmail (if your
> time allows). do you mean the ebuild "sendmail"?
Yes. I meant the program provided by the "sendmail" ebuild. That is
the MTA named "sendmail" that's been around since the universe cooled
enough to f
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 6:18 PM, Grant Edwards
wrote:
> Then DO NOT use sendmail. Sendmail is only for the ultra-professional
> who already knows how to configure it (not joking).
>
> If all your mail gets sent via a single SMTP server at your ISP (or
> wherever), then Sendmail is definitely
On 2020-04-02, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:20 AM, Ian Zimmerman
> wrote:
>
>> Normally the mail program works by execing /usr/sbin/sendmail to to the
>> hard part :-P Do you have it? It doesn't have to be the "real"
>> sendmail - any MTA program you install usual
On Thu, 02 Apr 2020 07:03:01 -0400,
Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:20 AM, Ian Zimmerman
> wrote:
>
> > On 2020-04-01 03:51, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> >
> > > why can't `mail` send emails? below is some info.
> >
> > Normally the mail program works by execing
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:20 AM, Ian Zimmerman
wrote:
> On 2020-04-01 03:51, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
>
> > why can't `mail` send emails? below is some info.
>
> Normally the mail program works by execing /usr/sbin/sendmail to to the
> hard part :-P Do you have it? It doesn't have to be
On 2020-04-01 03:51, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> why can't `mail` send emails? below is some info.
Normally the mail program works by execing /usr/sbin/sendmail to to the
hard part :-P Do you have it? It doesn't have to be the "real"
sendmail - any MTA program you install usually makes a sym
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