amanda remove most the environment variable for security reason.
mailx require the HOME environment variable to find the user .mailrc file
Could you try the attached patch.

Jean-Louis

Thomas Steiger wrote:

I have a question about sending mails in amanda. For example the 'amcheck -m <config>' command sends a mail if any errors are detected. The log file amcheck.<datestampe>.debug shows me the following content:

   ...
   amcheck: spawning /usr/bin/Mail in pipeline

amcheck: argument list: /usr/bin/Mail -s "<config> AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE" xyz@domain <mailto:xyz@domain> .

I assume that amcheck sends the mail under the user amanda (as configured by compilation) but it seems that the personal config file for the MAILER (~/.mailrc) will not be used to send the mail. In the sendmail log i can find the following error: ruleset=trust_auth, arg1=amanda@domain <mailto:arg1=amanda@domain>, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>], reject=550 5.7.1 <amanda@domain <mailto:amanda@domain>>... not authenticated

But if i use the following command on the shell to send a mail (under the user amanda): /usr/bin/Mail -s "<config> AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE" xyz@domain <mailto:xyz@domain>

everything goes fine.

The contents of the file .mailrc is:
   set smtp=smtp://localhost
   set smtp-auth=login
   set smtp-auth-user=userxyz
   set smtp-auth-password=**************

Does anybody know how i can configure amanda so that the mailer uses the smtp auth configuration?

diff -u -r --show-c-function --new-file 
--exclude-from=/home/martinea/src.orig/amanda.diff 
--ignore-matching-lines='$Id:' amanda-2.5.1p2.new/common-src/alloc.c 
amanda-2.5.1p2.new.HOME/common-src/alloc.c
--- amanda-2.5.1p2.new/common-src/alloc.c       2006-07-05 06:41:32.000000000 
-0400
+++ amanda-2.5.1p2.new.HOME/common-src/alloc.c  2007-01-11 10:49:29.000000000 
-0500
@@ -398,6 +398,7 @@ safe_env(void)
        "PATH",
 #endif
        "DISPLAY",
+       "HOME",
        NULL
     };