I think they may be disallowing sendmail to comply with a security
policy.  Using amreport to generate the report and leave it in a file
is an acceptable alternative.  We do this in addition to sending mail.

Dan Lorenzini           Greenwich Capital Markets
dal AT gcm DOT com              600 Steamboat Road
203-625-6088            Greenwich, CT 06830


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Your message dated: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:44:11 EST
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> Bob,
> 
> I'd never heard that - nor has it been a problem at my site where we
> do run sendmail - clients (non-hub) on all but one amanda server.
> 
> We have also run an amanda server on our mailhub with no difficulty.
> 
> The one exception I meantioned above is for a firewall system backing
> up the clients (itself plus one in dmz) but not transmitting any mail
> by choice of our security admin who didn't want any mail leaving the dmz.
> ie: That is not because of amanda issues.
> 
> Is this just something you where told or have you run into a difficulty
> and if so, what ?
> 
> 
> 
> > I've been told that I can not run sendmail or any mail system on the Sun 
> > Solaris server that I run the Amanda server on. Does anyone know how I 
> > can get the reports that I have normally sent to root's e-mail system 
> > some other way? Is their an option to getting the e-mails like in a 
> > report file? I know that I can put another e-mail address in the 
> > amanda.conf file. But, without sendmail running on my solaris system I 
> > have no way of sending it to another e-mail system. I think the e-mail 
> > will just hang in the mqueue folder until I delete it. Thanks.
> > Bob...
> > 
> > -- 
> > **************************************************************************
> > Bob Zahn UNIX Systems Adminstrator Oklahoma City Community College
> > bzahn AT okccc DOT edu      405.682.1611.7619  7777 S. May Avenue
> > bzahn AT zeus.okccc DOT edu               Oklahoma City, OK 73159
> > **************************************************************************
> > 
> > 
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