Happy new year! Markus^^^ Markus Grunwald <mar...@the-grue.de> writes:
> 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. Already Reco gave you good points. Plus you are guru for E-mail things. For a while, i did check your mail headers. Really you are professional. You can do it. Don't give up please. There are three tools -- msmtp, ssmtp, nullmailer. Persionally i use nullmailer for now on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Sincerely, -- ^고맙습니다 _地平天成_ 감사합니다_^))//