Help Setting Up 'Email' In 'LuckyBackup. (Solved)

[pclinmike]

I have been working on a automatic backup of my daughters laptop for when she goes to uni, Using 'Luckybackup' it will send a backup to a server back at home .
I would like to get the 'send email' function working in luckybackup, I have installed 'Sendmail'.

I have followed the 'Help' file for luckybackup but get this error message when trying to send a test email.


"The specified command is probably not installed
command:   sendemail
exit code: 0
output:    No such file or directory"

[Old-Polack]

I have been working on a automatic backup of my daughters laptop for when she goes to uni, Using 'Luckybackup' it will send a backup to a server back at home .
I would like to get the 'send email' function working in luckybackup, I have installed 'Sendmail'.

I have followed the 'Help' file for luckybackup but get this error message when trying to send a test email.


"The specified command is probably not installed
command:   sendemail
exit code: 0
output:    No such file or directory"

Maybe if the command was sendmail instead of sendemail?

[pclinmike]

I have been working on a automatic backup of my daughters laptop for when she goes to uni, Using 'Luckybackup' it will send a backup to a server back at home .
I would like to get the 'send email' function working in luckybackup, I have installed 'Sendmail'.

I have followed the 'Help' file for luckybackup but get this error message when trying to send a test email.


"The specified command is probably not installed
command:   sendemail
exit code: 0
output:    No such file or directory"

Maybe if the command was sendmail instead of sendemail?

Hello OP.
Yes I did notice.
But I copied and pasted that error message.!
This error was generated after I filled in the 'Luckybackup email GUI' and pressed 'Test' button .
Do you think it's an in-built faulty command ?

[Old-Polack]

I have been working on a automatic backup of my daughters laptop for when she goes to uni, Using 'Luckybackup' it will send a backup to a server back at home .
I would like to get the 'send email' function working in luckybackup, I have installed 'Sendmail'.

I have followed the 'Help' file for luckybackup but get this error message when trying to send a test email.


"The specified command is probably not installed
command:   sendemail
exit code: 0
output:    No such file or directory"

Maybe if the command was sendmail instead of sendemail?

Hello OP.
Yes I did notice.
But I copied and pasted that error message.!
This error was generated after I filled in the 'Luckybackup email GUI' and pressed 'Test' button .
Do you think it's an in-built faulty command ?

I don't know. I don't use that application, so really don't know much about it other than it's basically a GUI front end to rsync, which I use from the command line. Have you checked the configuration files for it? It could be a typo somewhere.

[pclinmike]

Just had a look again at the 'Help' file   http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/manual.html#emailTest
If you look in the test box it does say sendemail

[pclinmike]

Trying to start 'sendmail' in a terminal


# sendmail
/etc/mail/submit.cf: line 556: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory


Any ideas please.

[YouCanToo]

Trying to start 'sendmail' in a terminal


# sendmail
/etc/mail/submit.cf: line 556: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory


Any ideas please.

It is telling you the permissions for the folder /etc/mail/trusted-users is wrong!  The permission for files/folders in /etc/mail should be rw-r--r (644) They must also have the gid:uid of root.  May I ask if there is some specific reason that you are using sendmail?

[djohnston]

pclinmike,

In the LuckyBackup GUI, click on Profile > Email. Change the command in the first dialog box to what you want it to be. I don't know of a sendemail command. I have LuckyBackup installed, and there's no script for it, either. The closest thing I can find on my system is /usr/share/vim/ftplugin/gitsendemail.vim, which is a Vim plugin, not related to LuckyBackup.

Note, I've never tried the email function in LuckyBackup.

[pclinmike]

Trying to start 'sendmail' in a terminal


# sendmail
/etc/mail/submit.cf: line 556: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory


Any ideas please.

It is telling you the permissions for the folder /etc/mail/trusted-users is wrong!  The permission for files/folders in /etc/mail should be rw-r--r (644) They must also have the gid:uid of root.  May I ask if there is some specific reason that you are using sendmail?

Thanks I did think it was the 'permissions' and will try changing them later.
Sendmail is the default mail sender for Luckybackup

pclinmike,

In the LuckyBackup GUI, click on Profile > Email. Change the command in the first dialog box to what you want it to be. I don't know of a sendemail command. I have LuckyBackup installed, and there's no script for it, either. The closest thing I can find on my system is /usr/share/vim/ftplugin/gitsendemail.vim, which is a Vim plugin, not related to LuckyBackup.

Note, I've never tried the email function in LuckyBackup.

If you have a few minutes could you install the 'sendmail' package and try it for me being you use Luckybackup ! , I find the sendmail web site help hard going.
I have to get a working system for my daughters laptop before she goes to uni (she uses PCLinuxOS )  .

[djohnston]

If you have a few minutes could you install the 'sendmail' package and try it for me being you use Luckybackup ! , I find the sendmail web site help hard going.
I have to get a working system for my daughters laptop before she goes to uni (she uses PCLinuxOS )  .

Okay, but it will be a while before I get to it.

[pclinmike]

Well I got in touch with the owner  http://sourceforge.net/projects/luckybackup/forums/forum/873564/topic/5279228
 I was going wrong by installing 'Sendmail' via the package manager because I must have had my wrong glasses on I wanted 'sendemail' which we do not have in synaptic PM (maybe we could include it !) .
With the correct mail sender it work spot on.

[djohnston]

Well I got in touch with the owner  http://sourceforge.net/projects/luckybackup/forums/forum/873564/topic/5279228
 I was going wrong by installing 'Sendmail' via the package manager because I must have had my wrong glasses on I wanted 'sendemail' which we do not have in synaptic PM (maybe we could include it !) .
With the correct mail sender it work spot on.

Thanks for posting the solution. Sendmail requires a running DNS, or a connection to a DNS, with MX records configured for your domain. It is a lot more complicated than I first thought, and entire books have been written on sendmail configuration and administration. I had been trying, on and off, to use different mail programs instead of sendmail. So far, with no success.

Persistence pays off. I'm glad you solved this. It's a load off my mind. Now, if I could figure out a pesky Postgres problem ...

[YouCanToo]

Well I got in touch with the owner  http://sourceforge.net/projects/luckybackup/forums/forum/873564/topic/5279228
 I was going wrong by installing 'Sendmail' via the package manager because I must have had my wrong glasses on I wanted 'sendemail' which we do not have in synaptic PM (maybe we could include it !) .
With the correct mail sender it work spot on.

Thanks for posting the solution. Sendmail requires a running DNS, or a connection to a DNS, with MX records configured for your domain. It is a lot more complicated than I first thought, and entire books have been written on sendmail configuration and administration. I had been trying, on and off, to use different mail programs instead of sendmail. So far, with no success.

Try using Postfix!  It is super simple, compared to sendmail.  Perhaps I will do a write up for installing and using postfix sometime soon.

Persistence pays off. I'm glad you solved this. It's a load off my mind. Now, if I could figure out a pesky Postgres problem ...

[djohnston]

Try using Postfix!  It is super simple, compared to sendmail.  Perhaps I will do a write up for installing and using postfix sometime soon.

Thanks. I will. I didn't think of that one.

[greywolf]

Or you can try Exim4 which is in the repos. More robust than Postfix, IMHO, and not too difficult to set up a simple server, see
http://www.exim.org/docs.html

cheers,
Greywolf.