[systemd-devel] exim4 only queues mails sent by systemd service

[Lennart Poettering]

On So, 23.09.18 22:48, Kamil Jońca (kjonca at o2.pl) wrote:

> It is something strange with sending mails from systemd system service:
> assume we have service file /etc/systemd/system/mailtest.service:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> [Unit]
> Description="Test maili"
> [Service]
> #User=kjonca
> NoNewPrivileges=false
> Type=oneshot
> ExecStart=-zsh -c 'echo xxx|mail news'
> ExecStart=-zsh -c 'echo xxx|mutt -F /dev/null -s subject -e \'set copy=no\' kjonca'
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> When I call
> sudo systemctl start mailtest.service
> Two messages are put in exim queue, but not deliveried immediately.
> Why? What am I missing?

Uh, this looks like something you need to ask the exim community,
systemd can't make exim mail queueing decisions, that's entirely
internal to exim.

One question though: are you sure you have started the exim service
properly beforehand? I am pretty sure exim won't process the mail
queue if it's not running...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat