On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:20:38PM -0400, Josh Steadmon wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I apologize if this has been discussed before.  I've searched Google and
> the amanda-users archive, but didn't find anything similar to my
> problem.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone using postfix is having the same problems I
> am.  In the past, I've built Amanda with MAILER="/usr/bin/Mail", but I'd
> rather get amreport to work directly with postfix.  I've now built
> Amanda without explicitly specifying the mailer, and the configure
> script chooses postfix's version of sendmail.  However, this version of
> sendmail doesn't like the -s "Subject..." option, so amreport can't send
> mail.  This is the error message I get when I try to run amreport by
> hand:
> 
> sendmail: invalid option -- s
> sendmail: fatal: usage: sendmail [options]
> amreport: mail command failed: /usr/sbin/sendmail -s "testing_tape AMANDA 
> MAIL REPORT FOR BogusMonth 0, 0" labstaff AT cs.utk DOT edu
> 
> 
> So, do any postfix users have some tips on how to get amanda to use
> postfix directly?

I don't think sendmail supports a -s option, neither postfix's compatibility
version nor the real version.

Amanda is not expecting to use a mail transport agent (MTA) directly,
but a mail user agent (MUA) that supports the -s option.

At a shell command line, how do you "send mail directly with postfix"?

While not germane to your query, I'm curious why you would rather amanda
not use an MUA.

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