[Dnssec-tools-users] getting dnssec-tools email notifications w/o sendmail installed

[Patrick H. P. <pp...@ne...>]

When rollerd reaches phases 6, an email is sent via the subroutine
dt_adminmail().  When running dnssec-tools on a secure appliance (linux
32-bit variant) without sendmail installed this fails.  Dt_adminmail() uses
Mail::Send to do its work, which cycles through different mailers. It should
be possible to configure the dt_adminmail() subroutine to use SMTP instead
of sendmail and/or qmail etc.  

 

To get this to work, I manually updated dt_adminmail() with a change to line
124 of the release I was working with to:

 

$mh = $msg->open('smtp', Server=>'10.1.10.100');

 

This allowed our appliance to send mail w/o using sendmail and/or qmail. 

 

A suggestion would be to add a parameter or two to the dnssec-tools.conf
that specifies the mailer <ip|fqdn> and the mailer_type
<smtp|sendmail|qmail> and have the dt_adminmail() pick that up accordingly. 

 

Thoughts? 

 

Comments?

 

Thanks!

 

 

Patrick H. Piper

NETLINX, Inc.

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