sendmail bombarding logs

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/02/16 12:32, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> On Friday 01 Jan 2016 10:25:27 PM Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Well, you have a cron job called r2e.  What does that contain?  It very well
>> may have been calling sendmail but it is probable it required "real"
>> sendmail and since you didn't have it installed until now it failed.  See
>> my other response about "alternatives"
>>
>> What is the content of  /home/sudhir/.local/bin/rss2email/bin/r2e?
> r2e stands for rss2email[1]. It's a little Python program that sends rss feed 
> to your email. Fedora repos has an older (sort of) deprecated version of it. 
> It will not be upgraded to its latest version in Fedora [2]. So I run the 
> latest version in a Python virtual environment. It can use either smtp or 
> sendmail. I use smtp and it shouldn't at all use sendmail.
>
> I will get back once I have read content of several of those cron.* 
> directories.

Well, since your cronjob is a program which performs an email function and since those
errors being reported are referencing files in your directory I would say the most likely
cause is the interaction between your cronjob and an MTA  and not anything having to do
with files in /etc.

You said that installing sendmail "did clear up a lot of entries".  So, are you still
getting errors?

As I said, the rss2email package may work best with "sendmail" as opposed to another mta
such as postfix.

Is this what you see now with the alternatives command?

[root at meimei etc]# alternatives --list | grep mta
mta     manual  /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail

Would have been nice to know what it was before you installed it.


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