[hobbit] hobbit email notifications with nullmailer

Asif Iqbal vadud3 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 22:33:51 CET 2008


That is funny cuz I use nullmailer too and I have this in my
hobbitserver.cfg file

MAIL="mailx -r hobbit at server.com -s"

And I do get subjects


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Bill Arlofski <waa-hobbitml at revpol.com> wrote:
>
>  I have a system (Gentoo) running hobbit. I have installed the 4.20 with
>  the all-in-one patch.
>
>  The system is using nullmailer as my preferred MTA. It is a very small,
>  minimal qmail-like MTA run under daemontools.
>
>
>  /usr/sbin/sendmail is the 'wrapper' for email submissions, but it does
>  not accept a subject on the command line (eg: -s "this is the subject")
>  the way the sendmail does:
>
>  --[snip]--
>  # sendmail -h
>  sendmail: option -h requires a value.
>  usage: sendmail [flags] [recipients] <message
>  Nullmailer sendmail emulator
>    -B          Ignored
>    -b          Ignored
>    -C          Ignored
>    -d          Ignored
>    -F          Set the full name of the sender
>    -f          Set the envelope sender address
>    -h          Ignored
>    -i          Ignored
>    -L          Ignored
>    -m          Ignored
>    -N          Ignored
>    -n          Ignored
>    -O          Ignored
>    -o          Ignored
>    -p          Ignored
>    -q          Ignored
>    -R          Ignored
>    -r          An alternate and obsolete form of the -f flag
>    -t          Read message for recipients
>    -U          Ignored
>    -V          Ignored
>    -v          Ignored
>    -X          Ignored
>
>    -h, --help  Display this help and exit
>  --[snip]--
>
>  It requires that the email message being sent to (through?) it contains
>  a "Subject:" line in the header.
>
>  Without me changing to another MTA, is there a way to tell hobbit that
>  this is what I need? Changing would be OK if that was the only way forme
>  to get hobbit to send me notifications.
>
>  Thanks!
>
>  --
>  Bill Arlofski
>  Reverse Polarity, LLC
>
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>



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