{"id":280,"date":"2018-06-15T18:19:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T17:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/?p=280"},"modified":"2018-06-15T18:19:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T17:19:38","slug":"ssmtp-and-emails-from-root-not-arriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"SSMTP and emails from Root not arriving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daily and weekly status updates from Root stopped appearing in my main inbox a while back, (probably when I switched from Sendmail to SSMTP.\u00a0 )\u00a0 but they did appear in my secondary email account as this was the bounce-back address for email failures, as failure reports.<\/p>\n<p>Issue seemed to be that the Root mail box was not reachable anymore.\u00a0 \u00a0Attempts to amend an alias to have them delivered to a live account failed as most of the method listed for amending Root&#8217;s alias are for Sendmail.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A bit of googling found this post\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=591\">http:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=591<\/a>\u00a0and identified the correct file to edit as \/ETC\/MAIL.RC and add<\/p>\n<p>set append dot save ask crt<br \/>\nignore Received Message-Id Resent-Message-Id Status Mail-From Return-Path Via<br \/>\nalias root yournewrootmailboxhere@nowhere.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>to finally restore my housekeeping updates from the system<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daily and weekly status updates from Root stopped appearing in my main inbox a while back, (probably when I switched from Sendmail to SSMTP.\u00a0 )\u00a0 but they did appear in my secondary email account as this was the bounce-back address for email failures, as failure reports. Issue seemed to be that the Root mail &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/?p=280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SSMTP and emails from Root not arriving&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free","category-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}