Re: [msmtp-users] Problems with config file ownership

[Jaime Tarrant <jaime.tarrant.l@...204...>]

* John Brown (john.j.b.brown@...202...) wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a small file server at home running Ubuntu server 8.04 and I set 
> up SMART hard disk monitoring following the instructions at:
> http://blog.shadypixel.com/monitoring-hard-drive-health-on-linux-with-smartmontools/ 
> 
> 
> Then I followed the guide at
> http://www.klenwell.com/press/2009/03/ubuntu-email-with-mailx/
> 
> to set up mail using mailx and msmtp so that the server can send me 
> automatically SMART warnings to my address at an ISP, however I cannot 
> resolve the following problem:
> 
> If I (USER) own the /home/USER/.msmtprc file, I can send email from the 
> command line when I ssh to the server as USER, but the smartd daemon 
> cannot and in /var/log/daemon there is the following message:
> /
>     //etc/smartmontools/run.d/10mail: send-mail: /home/USER//.msmtprc: 
> must be owned by you Can't send mail: sendmail process failed /
> And the other way round: if I chown the /home/USER/.msmtprc to root, the 
> daemon can send the mail, but I can't.
> 
> Any idea what I do wrong?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Zdenek
>

msmtp supports a system wide configuration file (its location is distro
dependant, but you can find it by typing msmtp --version), and a
user configuration file that overrides the system one if it exists. 

For instance, on Arch Linux the system wide conf file is located in 
/etc/msmtprc

I would try setting the system wide one as it is usually not set by default.
This way the system will have its configuration, and as a user, your
~/.msmtprc file will have precedence when using your own account.

--
 Kind Regards,
 Jaime