Hi Florian, When I was talking about an external mail server, I was thinking of one in your local network, external to your bacula server. Sorry if I wasn't thinking far enough ;)
For most (home & small business) accounts, you should not need authentication if you send the mail through the outgoing mail server of your own internet provider. At least that's how things work here in Belgium. In that case it's best to set your own address as the From address, to make sure that the mail is accepted. This is true especially if you are sending to an address not hosted by your own isp (for example a gmail address). AFAIK all providers require that the FROM address is at least one in an existing domain nowadays (and a domain for which an MX DNS record exists, so they know it has a mail server somewhere). On top of that, I would recommend setting up a local mail server (meaning in your LAN, not necessarily on the bacula machine) to relay the mail to the right destination(s) for you, if only to avoid your messages getting lost if your internet connection is down at the time they are being sent. A local mail server will accept the mail and keep trying to pass it on until it succeeds, whereas bsmtp will try just once. I'm managing a 30-site WAN in which internal mail is being handled that way, and my experience with the reliability of even "Professional" DSL and cable connections is that such a buffering mail server at each location is no luxury. But setting up a mail server is a discussion for another list ;) -----Original Message----- From: Florian [mailto:florian.spl...@web.de] Sent: 17 September 2014 10:11 To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Send Messages through external mail service Hello. The problem is that I need to authenticate, when using gmx or gmail for instance and I have found no way of doing this with bsmtp only. Regards, Florian S. Am 16.09.2014 um 15:52 schrieb Luc Van der Veken: > I'm using bsmtp and it works fine, just configure the correct host > in the command line (-h hostname) to send the mails through your > external smtp server. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Florian [mailto:florian.spl...@web.de] > Sent: 16 September 2014 15:00 > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Bacula-users] Send Messages through external mail service > > Hello. > > I am currently trying to get the bacula email notifications to work. > I would like to use an existing, external mail account to send these > notifications instead of setting up an smtp server. > > Can I use bsmtp to do this or do I require additional packages? > If so, which packages would you suggest? > > Thanks in advance! > > Regards, > > Florian S. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want excitement? > Manually upgrade your production database. > When you want reliability, choose Perforce. > Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
