Re: Giveaway-Laptop: sending system mails

[John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

I wasn't going to post to this thread, but I do this all the time,
just send your mail to root, and have the alias where root goes be a
user where you have a .forward file so it will go wherever you want.

On Wed, 01 Jan 2020 15:49:00 -0500,
elvis wrote:
> 
> 
> On 31/12/19 11:11 pm, Markus Grunwald wrote:
> > Dear List Participants,
> > 
> > An elder friend of mine uses his 10 year old Sony Vayo with Windows 7
> > mainly for browsing the net, homebanking, E-Mails. Due to several
> > reasons, I want to give him a Laptop with Debian Linux that I will support.
> > 
> > Several things should work to keep my active involvement low. One of the
> > basics is: I want to get mails whenever "something" happens. I think
> > that msmtp is the right tool for me, but correct me if I'm wrong, please.
> > 
> > But, there is a problem: I have to put the plain mail password in
> > /etc/msmtprc, because the normal user won't be there to unlock a gpg
> > file or give msmtp the password in any other way. That means, I want
> > /etc/msmtprc to be only readable by root (440). But then, users other
> > than root (nobody maybe?) won't be able to send mails...
> > 
> > I wonder if that could be solved in a better way? I don't want to miss
> > anything from unattended-upgrades or logcheck or apt-listchanges...
> > 
> > I would love to get your thoughts on that.
> 
> 
> Why do you need a password? Aren't just sending mail to your
> local smtp server from another smtp instance?
> 
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