[rancid] Rancid notification with SSMTP

[Hugo Deprez]

Hello,

thank you for your answer Brian.

The solution I found is to create an alias using virtual_alias_maps (I
define my alias from my LDAP server).
It works great and it didn't take much time !

John, postfix is simple there is no issue with that. SSMTP is just doing
what I am expecting from him (sending mail), so that's perfect.

Regards,

Hugo



On 11 July 2011 21:07, Brian De Wolf <bldewolf at csupomona.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:56:22 -0700
> Hugo Deprez <hugo.deprez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to setup e-mail notification for rancid.
> > I am currently using rancid 2.3.6 on Debian.
> >
> > On the server we are using SSMTP to send mail notification.
> >
> > My problem is that SSMTP does not support aliases.
> >
> > Is there a way to configure mail notification for rancid with ssmtp ?
>
> I ran into this same problem (the lack of configurable recipients) when
> I rolled out RANCID.  Instead of fiddling with my mail config, I
> patched RANCID to be configurable.  I have attached the patch I made,
> adjusted for 2.3.6.
>
> Two caveats with this patch, now that I review it (it's been a while):
> 1) It restricts group names to valid environment variable names.  This
> bit me when I first used it because I was using dashes.
> 2) It uses bashisms in control_rancid, so the shebang should probably
> be /bin/bash or the "${!var}" expressions should be converted to
> something like "$(eval "echo\$${var}")".
>
> Good luck!
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