Dear List Participants, An elder friend of mine uses his 10 year old Sony Vayo with Windows 7 mainly for browsing the net, homebanking, E-Mails. Due to several reasons, I want to give him a Laptop with Debian Linux that I will support. Several things should work to keep my active involvement low. One of the basics is: I want to get mails whenever "something" happens. I think that msmtp is the right tool for me, but correct me if I'm wrong, please. But, there is a problem: I have to put the plain mail password in /etc/msmtprc, because the normal user won't be there to unlock a gpg file or give msmtp the password in any other way. That means, I want /etc/msmtprc to be only readable by root (440). But then, users other than root (nobody maybe?) won't be able to send mails... I wonder if that could be solved in a better way? I don't want to miss anything from unattended-upgrades or logcheck or apt-listchanges... I would love to get your thoughts on that. -- Markus Grunwald https://www.the-grue.de/~markus/markus_grunwald.gpg
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