[gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

[gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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I've just finished a massive amount of emerging, and a funny thing has
happened -- portage has started to send me messages.

This seems like a good idea, but they are all bouncing.  I'm not sure where
it's happening, but "localhost" is being glued onto the real sender domain
to form localhost.kosmanor.com -- which does not exist -- causing a bounce
from my email provider.

It's better than nothing, because the headers tell me which package is at
issue, and I can look up the elog entry.  But it could be better.

Anybody have a fix?

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:46:19 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> This seems like a good idea, but they are all bouncing.  I'm not sure
> where it's happening, but "localhost" is being glued onto the real
> sender domain to form localhost.kosmanor.com -- which does not exist --
> causing a bounce from my email provider.


Are you using ssmtp to send them? If so, you need to set hostname
in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"I need your clothes, your boots, and your tagline!"

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

[Mick]

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On Sunday 25 October 2009 18:13:19 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:46:19 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > This seems like a good idea, but they are all bouncing.  I'm not sure
> > where it's happening, but "localhost" is being glued onto the real
> > sender domain to form localhost.kosmanor.com -- which does not exist --
> > causing a bounce from my email provider.
> 
> Are you using ssmtp to send them? If so, you need to set hostname
> in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf.

Have a look at: 

http://www.destr0yr.com/article.php/Gmail_and_sSMTP

to get an idea how to set up yours.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 25 October 2009 18:13:19 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:46:19 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > This seems like a good idea, but they are all bouncing.  I'm not sure
> > > where it's happening, but "localhost" is being glued onto the real
> > > sender domain to form localhost.kosmanor.com -- which does not exist
> --
> > > causing a bounce from my email provider.
> >
> > Are you using ssmtp to send them? If so, you need to set hostname
> > in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf.
>
> Have a look at:
>
> http://www.destr0yr.com/article.php/Gmail_and_sSMTP
>
> to get an idea how to set up yours.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>

I use gmail for mailing lists that I subscribe to.  Their archiving is a
perfect feature for me.  However, I do not wish to use it for anything else.

The email headers do not indicate that the offending traffic went through
google, but prodigy.net does appear.

I do have a postfix instance running, but the only thing I expect it to do
is a bit of spam filtering on the odd email that comes to me directly, and
then send it to my ISP.

The traffic seems to originate on my system, is sent (SMTP?) to my ISP
(because of the TO: address), and then the story gets a bit muddy, because
I'm not sure which entity objects to the sender address.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:46:19 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > This seems like a good idea, but they are all bouncing.  I'm not sure
> > where it's happening, but "localhost" is being glued onto the real
> > sender domain to form localhost.kosmanor.com -- which does not exist --
> > causing a bounce from my email provider.
>
>
> Are you using ssmtp to send them? If so, you need to set hostname
> in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> "I need your clothes, your boots, and your tagline!"
>

I have no idea how they are being sent.  This just started autonomously.  I
don't even know off hand what ssmtp is.

++ kevin

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:58:53 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> > Are you using ssmtp to send them? If so, you need to set hostname
> > in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf.

> I have no idea how they are being sent.  This just started
> autonomously.  I don't even know off hand what ssmtp is.

What does "emerge --info -v | grep ELOG" show.

ssmtp is a minimal mail relay server, installed as part of @system.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

The people who are wrapped up in themselves are overdressed.

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:58:53 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > > Are you using ssmtp to send them? If so, you need to set hostname
> > > in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf.
>
> > I have no idea how they are being sent.  This just started
> > autonomously.  I don't even know off hand what ssmtp is.
>
> What does "emerge --info -v | grep ELOG" show.
>
> ssmtp is a minimal mail relay server, installed as part of @system.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> The people who are wrapped up in themselves are overdressed.
>

It shows the below.  So it appears I've been asking for email all along, but
only just now was it even working enough to fail visibly.
But: there is no /etc/ssmtp directory, let alone a config file.  That could
explain a lot, but I need some help fixing it.

PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info, warn, error, log"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage@localhost"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="[portage] ebuild log for ${PACKAGE} on ${HOST}"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="root"
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save mail"


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:23:32 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> But: there is no /etc/ssmtp directory, let alone a config file.  That
> could explain a lot, but I need some help fixing it.

emerge --oneshot --noconfmem ssmtp


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Do I BELIEVE in the Bible?! HELL man, I've SEEN one!!!

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