BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] email not working

2010-04-27 13:46:52
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] email not working
From: Doug Lytle <support AT drdos DOT info>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:44:48 -0400
Eddie Gonzales wrote:
> Mine does all this without errors but I don't get the email.
>
> BackupServer:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$ ./BackupPC_sendEmail -u egonzales AT 
> buckeyeusd DOT org
> Sending test email using /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f backuppc
> BackupServer:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$
>    

Sendmail or postfix also needs to be installed.

If one or the other is, then you'll want to check the system logs, I'm 
not familiar enough with Debian, you could probably find them in the 
/var/log or /var/log/mail.

In my Mandriva setup it shows up at /var/log/mail/info.log

Apr 27 13:15:12 backuppc postfix/smtp[4513]: 64D61307D78D0: 
to=<my.email AT drdos DOT info>, relay=drdos.info[64.xxx.xxx.xxx]:25, 
delay=0.29, delays=0.15/0.05/0.02/0.07, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 
2.0.0 Ok: queued as 88472E071C5B)

Doug

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