On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Bryan Keadle (.net) <bkeadle AT keadle DOT net> 
wrote:
> As referenced here, there was talk of providing a way for sending test
> emails.  It would be nice to have this ability to test/verify email setup
> within BackupPC web GUI.
>
> However, how/where does BackupPC know what SMTP server to use for sending
> email?  Is there a configuration option somewhere to specify an SMTP server
> to use?  Logged in as the backuppc user, I am running:
>
> BackupPC_sendEmail -t |less
>
>
> And it shows the email content, but not whether it was successful sending
> it, or if it was sent at all.  I haven't received the email, so there seems
> to be some configuration I'm missing somewhere.

It should hand it to sendmail, which will deliver it however sendmail
is configured.   Normally sendmail will just follow DNS MX records.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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