On 3/26/25 5:25 AM, Mehrdad Ravanbod wrote: > > Hi guys > > I am trying to set up the messaging part of bacula to send alerts and > using the built in bsmtp, but running into problems > > The SMTP server that we are using needs authentication for the senders > adress, and it seems like bsmtp does not handle this, i.e there is no > way to send a password for the sender to the smtp-server, am i correct > or did i miss something??
You are correct. bsmtp is a simple one-shot SMTP client with no authentication mechanisms. > And if this is the case, what is the alernative aside from using another program instead of bsmtp?? One alternative is to use another SMTP client like `mailx` or whatever you are comfortable with.Also, something to recognize is that the `mailcommand` setting in Messages{} resources can be used to call any command or script you like. And, said script can do whatever you want to happen when Bacula sends an email - ie: send custom stat us messages to slack, or to other monitoring tools, etc. The `mailcommand` does not have to just send email. :)
And, since bsmtp is a "one-shot" SMTP client, if the mail server is unreachable in the moment Bacula is trying to send an email, the message will be lost.
Due to this, I always recommend setting up a simple Postfix (a real MTA) installation on the Bacula Director system that will store and forward the email messages from Bacula - retying as necessary in the case of networking issues or mail server being temporarily offline - so your Bacula email messages do not get lost.
You can then safely have your `mailcommand` still call `bsmtp` to send emails to `-h localhost` on whatever port you configure the local Postfix to listen on. Then simply configure Postfix to accept messages from localhost with no authentication/encryption, and then relay the email messages to your mail server using any necessary SMTP authentication required by your email server.
H ope this helps, Bill -- Bill Arlofski w...@protonmail.com
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