Gmail, eh? My first thought is that you might be running afoul of gmail's spam filters, so the first thing to check is that the mails are actually going out.
> Backuppc is configured to send email for all hosts to one gmail account. > All email sent to the attention of the administrator as well as each > host's email is sent to the <foo>@gmail.com account. That is to say, the > USER field is set to <foo>@gmail.com for ALL 20 of the hosts. This was a > decision we made to avoid nagging our clients too much. > > The following emails have successfully come through to the gmail account: > * Test emails > * Administrative attention needed for "bogus" directories > * No backups of <hostname> have succeeded - for hosts that have NEVER ONCE > succeeded. > > The problem arises when backups have been delayed for a client. There is > one client that is rarely on the network. It has been about 16 days since > the last time it was backed up. Backups happen when it is attached to the > network, but I have never received an email from this client indicating > that it has been more than 3 days since the last backup. > > On that host's summary page I see the following: > > * This PC is used by esybac...@gmail.com (and michalski). > * Last email sent to esybac...@gmail.com was at 8/24 01:01, subject > "BackupPC: no recent backups on a82f06-michalsk". > * Last status is state "idle" (no ping) as of 8/26 07:00. > * Last error is "host not found". > * Pings to a82f06-michalsk have failed 170 consecutive times. > > I have EMailNotifyMinDays 2.5 set so I should be getting an email about > every 3 days indicating a problem. If I look at the email summary page I > see the following: > > Recipient: esybac...@gmail.com > Host: a82f06-michalsk > Time: 8/24 01:01 > Subject: BackupPC: no recent backups on a82f06-michalsk > > This indicates to me that the checking subsystem is working properly and > that, in general, the email system is working properly. The problem > appears to be with only the delayed backup emails. What might be causing > this problem? Where should I start looking for the source of this > problem? > > Thanks for your help! > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by aaron.ciu...@gmail.com via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
