Amanda-Users

Re: Some questions about Amanda's emailing of backup reports

2005-03-03 12:43:10
Subject: Re: Some questions about Amanda's emailing of backup reports
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:35:03 -0500
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:23:51AM -0600, Hull, Dave wrote:
> Our solution here is to have amanda send the email to itself
> (via the mailto option in our amanda.conf file).
> The amanda account has a procmail filter that saves a copy to a
> local file and forwards another copy on to the required persons.
> 

Good solution, particularly if the local file can be the report content
without the email headers.


A minor addition, the mailto parameter of amanda.conf can take multiple,
space separated, recipients.  ex.  mailto amanda root jon foo AT bar DOT com

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