Hi,

Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-05-08 19:58:12 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] invalid 
mail option]:
> Tim Cole wrote:
> > I'm having trouble getting backuppc configured to send status emails.  
> > In the log I noticed it's trying to use the -t option which doesn't 
> > work.  I tried changing the mail path from /bin/mail to 
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail, but I don't think that will work correctly either.  
> [...]
> /usr/sbin/sendmail should be right.

well, yes, setting $Conf{SendmailPath} to the path to sendmail is somewhat
self-evident, even without the introductory comment ("Full path to the
sendmail command"). But ...

> > I would like to get confirmation of successful backups each morning for
> > all hosts.

... you won't get those by default. BackupPC is designed not to bother you
with messages for "the normal case". Only when something goes wrong will it
alert you (with the obvious disadvantage that it won't if something goes so
wrong that it can't - but that's unlikely to happen without an upgrade or
configuration change as cause). The reasoning behind this is that you should
be able to take every e-mail message seriously, rather than having to
distinguish between a lot of noise and rare problem notifications.

If you want the noise, you can always set up a DumpPostUserCmd (there should
be a wiki page with details but apparently isn't; search the archives for
details instead). The advantage of this is that you can include just about
any information you want in the e-mail message.

Regards,
Holger

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