Hi Austin,
> vixie-cron runs /usr/sbin/sendmail with the HOME environment variable
> set to /. Because msmtp looks for per-user configuration in
> $HOME/.msmtp, it will fail to find the configuration file of the user
> cron is sending mail on behalf of. On a system that depends on
> per-user configuration files, this makes cron incapable of sending
> mail as any user (including root).
Maybe you missed that msmtp is able to use a system wide configuration
file: /etc/msmtprc
You can generate it with: dpkg-reconfigure -plow msmtp
For me msmtp-mta (with a correct setup in /etc/msmtprc) works perfectly
with cron.
Unless you disagree, i will close this bug.
Regards,
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