Re: [BackupPC-users] Email Notifications - Via another MTA rather than sendmail

[ken <ke...@go...>]

> Ken Gregoire wrote:
>
>>>> Is there a way to setup backuppc to use a different MTA (email
>>>> system)
>>>> where it has to provide a url, username and password to send email
>>>> notifications.  I don't have sendmail on the backuppc system and
>>>> would
>>>> like backuppc to send email notifications via a standard email
>>>> system.
>>>
>>> what MTA do you have installed?
>>> btw, sendmail *is* the "standard" for mail systems. :)
>>>
>>> if you mean that you don't have an MTA installed at all; look into
>>> one of
>>> the send-only MTAs out there, like nullmailer(+debian patches), or
>>> similar
>>> ones (can't think of the names right now; they all suck compared to
>>> nullmailer once the debian patches have been added to it). do a
>>> freshmeat
>>> search, you'll find many.
>>>
>> I use qmail on fedora.  I would like to be able to use a username/
>> password
>> to send mail and I cannot find where you would enter the password in
>> backuppc, or if it is possible.  Any ideas?
>
> I use qmail on CentOS and I have no problems using the default setup.
> Qmail has a sendmail interface, so it should just work.
>
> Nils Breunese.
>

Where do you enter the password for the email account in backuppc?