On 01/12/12 09:32:11, Chris Purves wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:39:32 -0400, Chris Purves wrote: > >> I'm having problems with the output of cron jobs. cron sets the > From > >> header as root, but does not include the domain. My email is then > >> rejected because it doesn't include a proper email address in the > >> From header. <snip> > It's because of the From header. The envelope-from is fine. The > message I receive is: > '550 No verifiable sender address in message headers'
I've been sitting on the sidelines waiting for one of the msmtp gurus to give you the definitive answer. I have just looked up one of my ancient scripts that used msmtp to send attachments (msmtp was the easiest lightweight way to do so from a script). First, don't ask cron to do too much -- it doesn't like it. Just point cron at a shell script. The rest is done in your shell script (or whatever). Secondly, create a dummy msmtp runcontrol file with one section [Default]. Give the dummy file 600 permissions. Delete it at the end of the script. Thirdly, at the commencement of your message create a few additional headers [Date, From, Sender, Reply-To, Message-ID, etc.], being careful to have no blank lines before or between the additional headers and one blank line after them. Then have your script execute: msmtp --file=/tmp/dummy/msmtp/runcontrol/file -- "recipient" < "$MESSAGE" Because msmtp is a well behaved MTA it works out that the first part of the message is additional headers and treats them accordingly. I found, and still do find, that the combination of all the header information and the "additional" headers at the beginning of the message works for me. HTH, Robert Thorsby ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: INSIGHTS What's next for parallel hardware, programming and related areas? Interviews and blogs by thought leaders keep you ahead of the curve. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ msmtp-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msmtp-users
