s-nail warning about old style

Simaryp · 2020-02-15 21:19:04

I am playing around with s-nail and mailx to learn it for use in my server.

So I set up a mail address at a freemail provider and with some googling I created a .mailrc with following content:

                                 
account test {
set smtp-use-starttls
set smtp-auth=login
set smtp=smtp://smtp.provider.tld:587
set from="admin@provider.tld(admin)"
set smtp-auth-user=admin@provider.tld
set smtp-auth-password=password
set ssl-verify=ignore
}

Running:

echo -e "test" | mailx -A test -s "test" receiver@test.tld

works and I get an email, but it throws several warnings like:

mail: Warning: variable superseded or obsoleted: smtp
mail: Warning: variable superseded or obsoleted: smtp-auth-user
mail: Warning: variable superseded or obsoleted: smtp-auth-password
mail: Warning: variable superseded or obsoleted: ssl-verify
mail: Obsoletion warning: please do not use *smtp*, instead assign a smtp:// URL to *mta*!
mail: Obsoletion warning: Use of old-style credentials, which will vanish in v15!
mail:   Please read the manual section "On URL syntax and credential lookup"

Reading the wiki I tried to change it towards

account test {
    set from="admin <admin@provider.tld>"
    set mta=smtp://admin:password@smtp.provider.tld:587 smtp-use-starttls
}

But actually that doesn't work. I also translated my password using percent url encoding.

Can anyone help me getting mailx running without all this warnings?

regid · 2020-02-16 04:04:43

I am confused. Have you replaced

                                 
account test {
set smtp-use-starttls
set smtp-auth=login
set smtp=smtp://smtp.provider.tld:587
set from="admin@provider.tld(admin)"
set smtp-auth-user=admin@provider.tld
set smtp-auth-password=password
set ssl-verify=ignore
}

with

account test {
    set from="admin <admin@provider.tld>"
    set mta=smtp://admin:password@smtp.provider.tld:587 smtp-use-starttls
}

?
That is, have you replaced a working, with warnings, 9 lines configuration file with a not working 4 lines configuration file? Does https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/S-nail the refered wiki page?

Last edited by regid (2020-02-16 04:12:56)

Simaryp · 2020-02-16 09:04:33

Exactly, the 9 lines are working as expected. But the warnings say soon it will not work anymore. And I should use the mta style.

So I checked the arch wiki and the entry you posted and tried to transform it to the new style and live happily ever after.

Unfortunately that doesn't work. Neither the lines I posted here nor an attempt to use .netrc with untouched password.

regid · 2020-02-16 16:22:55

My understanding of https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/S-nail seems to be different from yours. Quoting https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/S- … MTP_server

several options have to be set or adjusted. Add the following as appropriate to the configuration as above

I mean, in my view adjusted or add as appropriate is different from replace.

Simaryp · 2020-02-16 19:01:21

Hmm, I mean on default there is no .mailrc existing. I created the 9 liner based on some internet tutorial. And indeed this is sufficient to work out of the box without any further configuration or whatsoever. But apparently this way is outdated and I get the message I shouldn't use the set smtp option anymore and instead use mta.

In the example configuration you find an example:

# It can be as easy as
# (Remember USER and PASS must be URL percent encoded)
set mta=smtp://USER:PASS@HOST \
    smtp-use-starttls

And apparently it is not as easy as that. The wiki doesn't expect my custom mailrc to be present therefore it obviously doesn't mention anything about replace .

If you have something like this configured, could you maybe share your configuration that results in a working without warning deployment of mailx?

Simaryp · 2020-02-16 19:22:26

So apparently since I tried the .netrc I oversaw it and I got still errors regarding my URL percent encoding. Although I tripple checked wikipedia how to encode all my special characters in my password.
I changed my password and now the following just works without any warning. Apparently it was also important to set the v15-compat.

account test {
set v15-compat
set from="admin <admin@provider.tld>"
set mta=smtp://user:password@smtp.provider.tld:587 smtp-use-starttls
}

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#1 2020-02-15 21:19:04

s-nail warning about old style

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