PVE 5: mail forward failed: user 'root@pam' does not have a email address

[klauskurz]

Hi!

I get the following error when sending mail to root:

echo "Test" | mail -s Test root

in syslog:

mail forward failed: user 'root@pam' does not have a email address

There is an email in /etc/pve/user.cfg

cat /etc/pve/user.cfg
user:root@pam:1:0:::target@target.domain.com:::

In pve version 4 it was working correctly.

Thank you for help
Klaus

Spoiler: pve version 5.0-15

proxmox-ve: 5.0-15 (running kernel: 4.10.15-1-pve)
pve-manager: 5.0-23 (running version: 5.0-23/af4267bf)
pve-kernel-4.10.15-1-pve: 4.10.15-15
libpve-http-server-perl: 2.0-5
lvm2: 2.02.168-pve2
corosync: 2.4.2-pve3
libqb0: 1.0.1-1
pve-cluster: 5.0-10
qemu-server: 5.0-12
pve-firmware: 2.0-2
libpve-common-perl: 5.0-16
libpve-guest-common-perl: 2.0-11
libpve-access-control: 5.0-5
libpve-storage-perl: 5.0-12
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.8-3
vncterm: 1.5-2
pve-docs: 5.0-6
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.9.0-2
pve-container: 2.0-14
pve-firewall: 3.0-1
pve-ha-manager: 2.0-2
ksm-control-daemon: 1.2-2
glusterfs-client: 3.8.8-1
lxc-pve: 2.0.8-3
lxcfs: 2.0.7-pve2
criu: 2.11.1-1~bpo90
novnc-pve: 0.6-4
smartmontools: 6.5+svn4324-1
zfsutils-linux: 0.6.5.9-pve16~bpo90

 

[dcsapak]

this is a bug and will be fixed with the next update

in the meantime set the setgid bit of the /usr/bin/pvemailforward binary

chmod g+s /usr/bin/pvemailforward

 

[klauskurz]

Hi Dominik,
thank you very much for the fast answer.
The fix worked perfectly.

Best Regards
Klaus

 

[VecH]

I see in log

Nov 26 12:38:18 agro-host pvemailforward[16304]: mail forward failed: user 'root@pam' does not have a email address

I change in Datacenter -> Options -> Email from address: mymail@domain.com
and sended test mail: sendmail newmymail@newdomain.com ENTER test ENTER . ENTER

in log not changing from root@pam

postfix service restarted

the address has not changed

 

[dcsapak]

mail forward failed: user 'root@pam' does not have a email address

you have to enter an email in the user portion of the webui. datacenter -> users -> root@pam -> email

 

[VecH]

This problem host installed from version 4.3 and upgraded to 5.x

other host without problem, webui. datacenter -> users -> root@pam -> email is clear