From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RE5V3-0008Jc-US for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:34:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68F6F21C0E2; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:33:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5FC721C02A for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:32:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf10 with SMTP id 10so7000534wwf.4 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:32:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Rzn4Qpyd0ArqtbVho9/7g0fmCn5wANv8jVwXA4WBhto=; b=BB7ZzDot/17j4+8LPlanjHIBqQLtRtk6/hTQJHL8OSPB+Y3Hmt0gC07Aud567d+ZcZ /TwLEVDg78ixv+F5XyIcljq7SqRYWvIk/DPUwu6J0MYWAH0m1ccfUwl0MhMa8a9I2paR 8AiFQk3IoGXARfraEGX4LslbanJln9XKCAzpE= Received: by 10.216.170.204 with SMTP id p54mr2956542wel.51.1318451560969; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:32:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a12sm2046197wbo.9.2011.10.12.13.32.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:32:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why does procmail need to know what my mailer is? Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:32:35 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20111012150603.GD8613@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20111012150603.GD8613@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1900996.llTDUafd9Q"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201110122132.45644.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: acc8a2e3d65b9245edcd71fcbedde721 --nextPart1900996.llTDUafd9Q Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday 12 Oct 2011 16:06:03 Walter Dnes wrote: > My most embarressing incident involving linux was one day when I added > a cron job, and it started sending log messages to "root". Back then, I > didn't know that ssmtp made a "sendmail" link, let alone 3 of them. > ssmtp did its thing, and pushed the messages for "root" to my ISP's MTA, > which forwarded them to my ISP's root inbox. "They were not amused". I have 3 boxen which would not send anything via ssmtp with default setting= s. =20 All they did was to fill in a /root/dead.letter file with relevant messages= =20 instead. > After a few attempts, I finished the game of whack-a-mole and killed > all the symlinks, and made sure that it would never happen again. I > addition to configuring ssmtp.conf to send "root" messages to myself, I > also made the above directories to prevent symlinks being constructed. > Who knows what other programs send mail on a whim. Many. Some you have to set up to do so, others when run via cron will emai= l=20 the results (e.g. rkhunter, logrotate, et al). In any case, I had to set up ssmtp to use my gmail account to relay message= s=20 before it emailed anything at all. > This is the first time I've had this interactive prompt happen with > procmail. What gives? Not sure, some one who has procmail set up ought to be able to help here I= =20 hope. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1900996.llTDUafd9Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk6V+W0ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLbQdwCeImjGVd2oJpevr9Oyd4bbfjuN saoAnjP9PSnoBDFdf/hCxq0KPKB3bGeR =AGxy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1900996.llTDUafd9Q--