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 1Pi8dZ-0002y5-4J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:54:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2FC5E0999; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:53:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE44E0999 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:53:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [76.14.68.122]) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E66DB844E08E for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:52:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D40516A.8070108@badapple.net> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:52:58 -0800 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay References: <4D3B4D53.7000209@wonkology.org> <20110126040416.GA18712@waltdnes.org> <201101260646.52306.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4A877015-B2C5-4030-997F-640AAAAD4142@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4A877015-B2C5-4030-997F-640AAAAD4142@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2121e5206c0186a81d21dc9a4caf88ba On 1/26/2011 1:07 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 26/1/2011, at 6:46am, Mick wrote: >> On Wednesday 26 January 2011 04:04:16 Walter Dnes wrote: >>> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:34:11PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote >>> >>>> This is working fine. But there are other PCs in the LAN, which I >>>> would also like to get status emails from. Being not the only one >>>> with root access there, I do not want to duplicate the ssmtp setup >>>> because of the password stored in ssmtp.conf. >>> >>> ??? What password in ssmtp.conf ??? My /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf has 4 >>> uncommented lines. They are... >>> ... >> >> If you set it up to email you stuff using e.g. your email account, you would >> also need authentication credentials: > > Ya, but he's got a Postfix server listening on that LAN, so the other machines (using ssmtp) don't need to authenticate to that. > > This thread has become far too complicated. Postfix can be set up editing only about 3 lines lines in its config file. > > Stroller. > > I dont't think you have followed the thread correctly. The OP did say he had a user/pass in his ssmtpd.conf which I assumed was for accessing the final relay host. That was the reason for the extra lines. kashani