Ubuntu 18.04, ssmtp installed, mailutils installed and everything works, can send through gmail. My problem is that the messages when received appear to be from "Root ([email protected])" I am trying to change "root" to a name that wont set off my spam filters at work, which "root" seems to do.
How do I set the username so it appears in the outgoing message as something other than "Root"?
i want to reproduce a mail related problem regarding a mail that is sent from a system i have no control over. For this purpose i want to mimic this problematic email.
I have the exact mail as it was received as a text file (headers + base64 encoded body) How can i send a very similar mail from one of our systems?
I tried
mail -s "Test" [email protected] < mail.txt
But it puts the whole text file into the body.
thanks in advance Jens
When we try to install, remove, update mailutils we always have same error with status 'half-installed'. Can help me? The output of:
sudo apt install mailutils
is:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
mailutils is already the newest version (1:2.99.99-1ubuntu2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 136 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/90.4 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
dpkg: error processing package patch (--configure): package patch is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed')
Errors were encountered while processing: patch
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I was installing tlp for ubuntu. During installation a dialog box for changing postfix configuration had popped up, and I went with the default options, setting the hostname as Jayant.
Now, when I try to install or uninstall any package, an error pops up as
Errors were encountered while processing: postfix, mailutils sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an exit code(1)
In the message, it was written as Setting myhostname=Jayant..name in /etc/postfix, which is causing the problem of bad parameter value
I tried to update the value of myhostname variable in /etc/postfix/main.cf and changed it from Jayant..name to Jayant
Then, I executed the command service postfix reload to restart the postfix.
However,when again trying to install any package, the same error pops up and my change to the file is reverted back. And when I now see the file /etc/postfix/main.cf, once again the myhostname variable holds Jayant..name value.
So how do I solve this problem? Is there anywhere else I need to update myhostname variable value?
I have tried a few things so far but with no success.
I modified crontab and and preceeded the command with @reboot mail.mailutils ...
I also created a .sh script, changed permission, added it to init.d modified configuration with sysv-rc-config --level 3 script on and added the necessary line to rc.local.
I would really appreciate if you could tell me where else to look!
I just want to send an email when I boot my Ubuntu (desktop not server) and when I turn it off.
The script that I am using is not even a script is
mail.mailutils -s "subject" emailaddress <<< "message"