Andreas,
Thanks for your response. I agree with your assessment, this is a corner case.
I use ssmtp instead of a MTA because I just want to send an email from a
script. As in the case of smartd,I have smartd call my script which sends the
test message and also the output of smartctl -H which rep
Thanks for filing this bug in Ubuntu.
smartd won't always require networking, so making such a change
distribution-wide is probably not the best solution. You adapted well to
your local configuration settings, and I'm glad it worked.
Other MTAs probably would have handled this better I suspect, a
