Jo Rhett wrote: > Well, login as bacula and run this command > /etc/bacula/bin/bsmtp -h mail.tele.dk -f "(Bacula) [EMAIL PROTECTED]" -s > "Bacula: Backup OK of epohost-fd Full" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When this works, the problems in bacula will go away. > > As for why it does a DNS query - it needs its own hostname for the > SMTP transaction. Edit /etc/hosts and be done with it.
Strange that Thunderbird doesn't need that. Anyway I could enter epohost into /etc/hosts but the dhcp server does not allways give epohost the same address on the lan. Can a script be made to detect the correct IP-address and then update /etc/hosts accordingly? > > On Aug 2, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: >> I don't understand how the bsmtp works. I thought I had found the >> correct >> syntax, but I keep getting errors I don't understand. The following >> is the error >> messages that I find in the console: >> >> 02-Aug 002:51 epo-dir: message.c:454 Mail prog: bsmtp: bsmtp.c:230 >> Fatal >> gethostbyname for myself failed "epohost": ERR=Success >> 02-Aug 02:51 epo-dir: BackupCatalog.2006-08-02_02.15.00 Error: >> message.c:465 >> Mail program terminated in error. >> CMD=/etc/bacula/bin/bsmtp -h mail.tele.dk -f "(Bacula) [EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> -s "Bacula: >> Backup OK of epohost-fd Full" [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> What can possibly be wrong? mail.tele.dk is the normal smtp server >> I use with >> all mail and should be correct. Why does bsmtp issue gethostbyname >> for epohost? >> I see no need for that. > -- Erik P. Olsen, Civilingeniør, MSc Solsortvej 30, DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: +45 38346480, Fax: +45 38346470, Mobil: +45 40765300 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
