Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>]

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On Dec 14, 2011 7:08 PM, "Tanstaafl" <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:
>
> On 2011-12-14 6:43 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 2011-12-13 5:42 PM, Leho Kraav <leho@kraav.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> i would first of all suggest dropping ssmtp and going with
>>> nullmailer. if ssmtp fails for any reason it will lose your emails.
>>> nullmailer has queue capability.
>
>
>> Sounds good, I'll give it a shot (emerging now)...
>
>
> Ok, emerged, did emerge --config nullmailer, added:
>
> # A nonstandard SMTP server setup:
> # someotherserver.domain.com smtp --port=2525
> mail.myserver.com smtp --port=587 --user=<user> --pass=<pass>
>
> to /etc/nullmailer/remotes, and added it to default runlevel.
>
> When starting manually I get the following warning:
>
> li66-207 nullmailer # /etc/init.d/nullmailer start
>  * Starting nullmailer ...      [ ok ]
>  * WARNING: -c/--chuid is deprecated and will be removed in the future,
please use -u/--user instead
> li66-207 nullmailer #
>
> Checking the init script, I see:
>
> start() {
>        checkconfig
>        ebegin "Starting nullmailer"
>        cd /var/nullmailer
>        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid ${USER}:${GROUP} \
>                          --exec ${DAEMON} -- ${ARGS}
>        eend $?
> }
>
> Should I change this? Ianap, so don't really feel comfortable just
changing it without confirming first...
>
> Thanks again...
>

Don't.

Just file a bug, and let the maintainer take care of it.

It's *still* supported currently.

Rgds,

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