I forgot to send this out to the list. I apologize for any duplicates.
On 1/12/2020 6:47 AM, John Stoffel wrote:
Leslie> ??? I recently upgraded one of my servers to Debian Buster.?
Leslie> I have been using sSMTP as my MTA, but unfortunately it is no
Leslie> longer maintained.? I installed msmtp, instead, but now my
Leslie> mesages are no longer going out from mdadm.? I can run the
Leslie> command:
This is a problem with your mail setup, not with mdadm. I suspect you
need to configure msmtp to use TLS and/or to submit the email to port
It is using TLS.
587 on att.net, where you do a full authenticated login.
Nope, 465, which by the way is the default for SSL/TLS, and I am
doing a full authenticated login. Now, it is certainly arguable,
perhaps even likely, my mail setup has a problem, but without knowing
specifically what mdadm is sending out, I am going to be hard pressed to
know what I need to modify in my mail setup.
In the earlier version of mdadm, the mail utility (specified in
/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf) was the script /usr/bin/mdadm_notify. I have no
idea how or whatt he newer version f mdadm sends out.
Look at the examples here:
https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Relay_email_to_gmail_(msmtp,_mailx,_sendmail
https://wiki.debian.org/msmtp
I had already looked at both of those, and although the
configuration for att.net is different than for gmail, nothing jumps out
at me.
Here is my configuration for msmtp:
# Example for a system wide configuration file
# A system wide configuration file is optional.
# If it exists, it usually defines a default account.
# This allows msmtp to be used like /usr/sbin/sendmail.
account default
# The SMTP smarthost
host outbound.att.net
# Use TLS on port 465
port 465
tls on
tls_starttls off
# Construct envelope-from addresses of the form "user@oursite.example"
#auto_from on
#maildomain att.net
from lesrhorer@xxxxxxx
user lesrhorer@xxxxxxx
auth on
password XXXXXXXXXXX
# Syslog logging with facility LOG_MAIL instead of the default LOG_USER
syslog LOG_MAIL
Mail is working on another server that still uses ssmtp. Here is the
configuration:
# Config file for sSMTP sendmail
#
# The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000
# Make this empty to disable rewriting.
root=lesrhorer
# The place where the mail goes. The actual machine name is required no
# MX records are consulted. Commonly mailhosts are named mail.domain.com
mailhub=outbound.att.net
# Where will the mail seem to come from?
rewriteDomain=att.net
# The full hostname
hostname=localhost
# Are users allowed to set their own From: address?
# YES - Allow the user to specify their own From: address
# NO - Use the system generated From: address
FromLineOverride=YES
AuthUser=lesrhorer@xxxxxxx
AuthPass=XXXXXXXXXXXXX
UseTLS=YES
And follow the debuging info these guides give. Once you get email
I don't see any debugging recommendations in either document.
One interesting thing: When I run the monitor / test command on the
older system, sendmail complains about the mailbox being unavailable,
but it still sends out the email.
