Topic: Not getting admin emails anymore

[del]

Hi All,

This may be something or nothing but a couple of weeks ago I updated my SME file server and before the update I used to receive 2 emails a day, 1 telling me that I was at risk (SSH turned on) and 1 from clam with anti-virus results and then I would receive 1 telling that updates were available (obviously when updates were available  ) but I know only get the clam results email  I know there are updates available because it says so in server manager  I have now rebuilt my SAIL SME server (due to some hardware issues) and the same thing happened  I don't get the up date notification email anymore, before I report a bug has anyone else had any problem like this? I hate reporting bugs unless I am 100% sure because I don't want to waste the developer's valuable time.

Regards,
Del

[cactus]

Hi All,

This may be something or nothing but a couple of weeks ago I updated my SME file server and before the update I used to receive 2 emails a day, 1 telling me that I was at risk (SSH turned on) and 1 from clam with anti-virus results and then I would receive 1 telling that updates were available (obviously when updates were available  ) but I know only get the clam results email  I know there are updates available because it says so in server manager  I have now rebuilt my SAIL SME server (due to some hardware issues) and the same thing happened  I don't get the up date notification email anymore, before I report a bug has anyone else had any problem like this? I hate reporting bugs unless I am 100% sure because I don't want to waste the developer's valuable time.

Regards,
Del

Did you point the admin e-mail to be forwarded to some address or pseudonym?

[mmccarn]

One of the recent updates was specifically designed to eliminate the daily rkhunter ssh vulnerability notice in some instances: http://lists.contribs.org/pipermail/updatesannounce/2007-November/000025.html

Also, there was some discussion on bugzilla about only notifying admins of pending updates on a weekly basis (some users were annoyed at getting a notice every day...).  I don't know if anything happened on this, though.

[del]

Did you point the admin e-mail to be forwarded to some address or pseudonym?

Yes it is forwarded to an external email, the same setting as before  I have just sent an email to admin from my email account and I received it almost immediately to the address that admin is forwarded to so that is working. I think I will now turn off the forwarding and see if the update email comes through tomorrow directly to admin, if not I will just do the updates that the server-manager is showing and then wait until some more are available, maybe the latest updates will put things right 

Also, there was some discussion on bugzilla about only notifying admins of pending updates on a weekly basis (some users were annoyed at getting a notice every day...).  I don't know if anything happened on this, though.

It has been about three weeks since I last updated, I have not received any update emails since   

Regards,
Del

[cactus]

Yes it is forwarded to an external email, the same setting as before  I have just sent an email to admin from my email account and I received it almost immediately to the address that admin is forwarded to so that is working. I think I will now turn off the forwarding and see if the update email comes through tomorrow directly to admin, if not I will just do the updates that the server-manager is showing and then wait until some more are available, maybe the latest updates will put things right  :-)It has been about three weeks since I last updated, I have not received any update emails since   

Regards,
Del

You can also check on the SME Server shell if you have updates available like this:

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yum list updatesPerhaps there are no updates at all (highly unlikely but you never know).