On Ma, 31 dec 19, 14:11:06, Markus Grunwald wrote: > 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... It seems like you already have a solution for msmtp. Other options to consider are dma and opensmtpd, which can also queue messages if e.g. the system is not connected to the internet at that time. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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