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Fog_Watch
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 8:03 am    Post subject: mail(yes) in fcrontab for a user can work Reply with quote

It's possible to make mail(yes) in fcrontab to work for a user as well as root.

Code:
# gpasswd -a $USER nullmail #First
# chgrp nullmail /etc/nullmailer/{adminaddr,defaultdomain,me} #second

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FogWatch.

Without the above I received the following error:
Quote:
nullmailer-inject: nullmailer-queue failed: 18
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 8:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just in case someone else runs into this...
The can be caused by the /etc/nullmailer directory not being world readable so a chmod 755 /etc/nullmailer will fix it (the files inside can still be 640).
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks so much! In my case, I added a new non-world-readable control file and it was much later that I realized no mail was getting sent! Your post made me think to look and find that this was the case.
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