[gentoo-user] ssmtp - localmail

[gentoo-user] ssmtp - localmail

[thelma]

According to:
https://wiki.webevaluation.nl/sending_e-mail_with_ssmtp
ssmtp has no local e-mail so it can not send cron output to /var/mail/user

But from posting at:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/69133/where-is-the-setting-for-sending-email-to-a-system-user-with-ssmtp

Aliases for TO: addresses would normally need to be set in /etc/aliases, but SSMTP doesn't read this! Instead, you need to edit /etc/mail.rc and add a line such as
alias root root<yourname@youremail.com>

Can anybody verify it?

-- 
Thelma

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp - localmail

[Gerrit Kuehn]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:20:52 -0700
thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:

> According to:
> https://wiki.webevaluation.nl/sending_e-mail_with_ssmtp
> ssmtp has no local e-mail so it can not send cron output to
> /var/mail/user

The manpage here says

---
It does not do aliasing, which must be done either in the user agent or
on the mail-hub.  Nor  does it honor .forwards, which have to be done on the
recieving host.  It especially does not deliver to pipelines.
---

> 
> But from posting at:
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/69133/where-is-the-setting-for-sending-email-to-a-system-user-with-ssmtp
> 
> Aliases for TO: addresses would normally need to be set in
> /etc/aliases, but SSMTP doesn't read this! Instead, you need to edit
> /etc/mail.rc and add a line such as alias root
> root<yourname@youremail.com>
> 
> Can anybody verify it?

Not right now, but what do you try to achieve? You can set email
destination for cron with MAILTO=<yourname@youremail.com> in your
crontab, if sending mails from cron is your problem.


cu
  Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp - localmail

[Gerrit Kuehn]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:20:52 -0700
thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:

> Aliases for TO: addresses would normally need to be set in
> /etc/aliases, but SSMTP doesn't read this! Instead, you need to edit
> /etc/mail.rc and add a line such as alias root
> root<yourname@youremail.com>

Concerning root: Can't you just put

root=yourname@youremail.com

in your ssmtpd.conf?


cu
  Gerrit