On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 17:28:39 +0200 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Ma, 31 dec 19, 14:11:06, 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... > > It seems like you already have a solution for msmtp. > > Other options to consider are dma and opensmtpd, which can also queue > messages if e.g. the system is not connected to the internet at that > time. Just a word of caution: while they obviously work for some people, my experience with the simple and light smtp agents has not been good: they often have bugs, sometimes serious ones, and are sometimes missing essential features. I eventually bit the bullet and went back to a full-blown, solid smtp system (postfix). https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917932 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917559 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917260 Celejar