On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:52:45 +0200, Fabrice Blatch <bagadat AT gmail DOT com>  
wrote:

> Hello
>
> i must say that i'm very grateful for the creators of BackupPC... it
> is an awesome piece of software....
>
> all is going well with my installation but i'm struggling with the
> "email notifications"...
>
> i'm using the gui to configure backupPC, the backups are going well
> but i do not receive any emails form backupPC.
> in the documentation, it says:
>
> To verify that it can run sendmail and deliver email correctly you
> should ask it to send a test email to you:
>
>      su __BACKUPPCUSER__
>      __INSTALLDIR__/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u MYNAME AT MYDOMAIN DOT COM
>
> i did that and i did receive an email form backuppc, but i still do
> not get any notifications...
>
> any suggestions?
>
> thank you


BackupPC must be running at the first number of the wakeup schedule else  
the nightly cleanup will not start and no mail alerts will be sent.

So check the shedule. And check via the web interface when the last  
cleanup was.

I hope this helps.

Koen Linders


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