From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4465C1381F3 for ; Sun, 5 May 2013 14:29:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD1AFE088C; Sun, 5 May 2013 14:29:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a81.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BDBBE087A for ; Sun, 5 May 2013 14:29:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a81.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a81.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE20A8072 for ; Sun, 5 May 2013 07:29:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=libertytrek.org; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s= libertytrek.org; bh=e800SQLJd0VsjV2/fh0PlnuAK7g=; b=GtYzctX1Ngk7 k8oNMQwPQKy61RyXQhbqybBcNHlXcdrJSWeHsKiHCHsKwIPWq7r3JvJHVfaeSkSd p3/rKPfftvzubBQUJBPnPrFrj9I0P2DLQ/4GAMObERb+AD+utzFK3FxmenZzyll3 8o2M7A6j0QHMMLK5Hj83VYMnYc3cTuA= Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [159.63.145.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tanstaafl@libertytrek.org) by homiemail-a81.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B49AEA806E for ; Sun, 5 May 2013 07:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51866CAA.2070801@libertytrek.org> Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 10:28:58 -0400 From: Tanstaafl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 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: SOLVED - Re: [gentoo-user] alternate mta's References: <51853CD7.2000100@libertytrek.org> <5185612C.30109@gmail.com> <51856CBD.60908@libertytrek.org> <20130505000133.604a8524@marcec.hunte.us> <51858878.1040309@libertytrek.org> <51859DE0.1020408@asyr.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <51859DE0.1020408@asyr.hopto.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ea2d9efd-954f-4897-92bf-7861b9ad0883 X-Archives-Hash: 1a7e81b0a67825ee57907ecc9f3b1db1 On 2013-05-04 7:46 PM, Thanasis wrote: > on 05/05/2013 01:15 AM Tanstaafl wrote the following: >> Oh... ok, well, now I'm just wondering why it decided to install it all >> of a sudden... > mail-client/mailx : The /bin/mail program, which is used to send mail > via shell scripts > > mail-mta/ssmtp: Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub > > They are totally different and not alternate of each other. Well, I'm using msmtp not ssmtp, but yeah, I was having tunnel vision. On 2013-05-05 5:45 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > /usr/portage/app-forensics/rkhunter/ChangeLog shows two recent > dependency fixes, which each reference a bug report. In this case > it's bug #398123, according to which rkhunter uses the "mail" command > in its daily cron job. Obviously, without a /bin/mail provider > installed (what virtual/mailx is for), the mails will never get sent. > Instead, you (hopefully) get error messages from cron. Ah, ok, makes sense now. I had installed rkhunter a week or two ago but had commented the cron job when working on something else, but never re-enabled it, and hadn't noticed I wasn't getting those emails (to remind me to go back and re-enable it). I was getting other system emails (ie, portage), so didn't realize I needed something else (a client) for these kinds of emails. Anyway, sorry for the noise...