Hi there,
On Wed, 3 Jun 2026, George King wrote:
... I've installed msmtp as the MTA ... works fine when I'm sending
it from my normal account. It picks up details from the system
config file /etc/msmtprc and my user config file in ~/.msmtprc.
...
... when I do
|su backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u
MY...@MY... <mailto:MY...@MY...>|
as per the documentation, and substituting my email address, I get the
error
Sending test email using /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f backuppc
sendmail: account default not found: no configuration file available
...
... suggestions would be welcomed.
It looks like you aren't fabricating the right invocation of a command
for msmtp. Did you set $Conf{SendmailArgs}? Being an old Sendmail
diehard I've never used msmtp, so I ask not because I know anything
about it, but because msmtp is given as an example in the docs. :)
http://.../BackupPC_Admin?action=view&type=docs#_conf_sendmailargs_
If you look at the very last sub in the BackupPC_sendEmail Perl script
you'll see that all it's doing is running a command which you can run
yourself at the terminal. Something along the lines of
$ cat messagefile | sendmail -t user -f backuppc
should do the trick. Bear in mind that environment variables might not
be the same for user you and user backuppc. PATH for example might be
finding a different binary to run if you run a command when logged in
as you and exactly the same command when logged in as user backuppc.
--
73,
Ged.
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