January 14, 20251 yr I just upgraded my server from 6.12.10 to 6.12.14 (not quite ready for v7). I noticed in the syslog that it sent (or tried to send) an email from [email protected]. Jan 14 12:37:08 Tower root: plugin: creating: /tmp/unRAIDServer.sh - from INLINE content Jan 14 12:37:08 Tower root: plugin: running: /bin/bash /tmp/unRAIDServer.sh Jan 14 12:37:08 Tower root: plugin: creating: /tmp/unRAIDServer.zip - downloading from URL https://stable.dl.unraid.net/6.12.14/054a5ec80465b19d64fddff1fe0705da62cbb318217f99d863c2aad5d90bb66a/unRAIDServer-6.12.14-x86_64.zip Jan 14 12:38:52 Tower root: plugin: creating: /tmp/unRAIDServer.md5 - downloading from URL https://stable.dl.unraid.net/6.12.14/054a5ec80465b19d64fddff1fe0705da62cbb318217f99d863c2aad5d90bb66a/unRAIDServer-6.12.14-x86_64.md5 Jan 14 12:38:53 Tower root: plugin: creating: /tmp/unRAIDServer.sh - from INLINE content Jan 14 12:38:53 Tower root: plugin: running: /bin/bash /tmp/unRAIDServer.sh Jan 14 12:38:53 Tower sSMTP[3695]: Creating SSL connection to host Jan 14 12:38:53 Tower sSMTP[3695]: SSL connection using TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 Jan 14 12:39:06 Tower sSMTP[3695]: Sent mail for [email protected] (221 2.0.0 closing connection 6a1803df08f44-6dfade72a80sm55481256d6.81 - gsmtp) uid=0 username=root outbytes=405 I don't think I've ever seen my machine try to email from that email address -- Could it be a problem with the upgrade script?
January 15, 20251 yr Author 10 hours ago, bmartino1 said: do you have gmail email notifications enabled for syslog? The syslog server page (Settings->Syslog) does not have notification settings. I have notifications configured in the unraid Settings->notifications page, but that is using a gmail address of my own, not [email protected].
January 15, 20251 yr Community Expert 5 hours ago, tcharron said: The syslog server page (Settings->Syslog) does not have notification settings. I have notifications configured in the unraid Settings->notifications page, but that is using a gmail address of my own, not [email protected]. the machine will use [email protected] as the user is root on unraid to email and seen notfications... under Setting>notification you have setup a email smtp.
January 16, 20251 yr Author Sorry but I don't follow your point. Yes I have an SMTP email configured. The existing SMTP settings work fine for notifications from other applications. How do I avoid syslog trying to use [email protected]? The account on unraid sending the message is root (root@localhost), but that should not translate to [email protected].
January 16, 20251 yr Community Expert I don't know how to expalin it to you then. based on your replies you have a smtp server setup and have notification setup. Because of this the machine sent a external email using the smtp. the user that sent a email was root. it was external based on your notification settings. review: as that is normal behavior of unraid sending a external email notfication...
January 16, 20251 yr Author My notifications are set correctly. The point of my message here was to highlight that the unraid updater is sending messages differently than I expected. here is the header for the udpater message: from: Console and webGui login account <xxxxxxx.xxxxxx@gmail.com> to: root bcc: [email protected] date: Jan 14, 2025, 12:39 PM subject: Output from your job 6 mailed-by: gmail.com I receive the above message since my chosen destination is on the bcc line. I agree that the sender is 'root', but the sender is not '[email protected]' as was captured in the syslog. It's a bit odd to me that the udpater does that, when every other app that sends notifications puts the proper "to:" field instead of a bcc field. Here is the syslog entry for the message above, and the next notification that was sent... Jan 14 12:39:06 Tower sSMTP[3695]: Sent mail for [email protected] (221 2.0.0 closing connection 6a1803df08f44-6dfade72a80sm55481256d6.81 - gsmtp) uid=0 username=root outbytes=405 Jan 14 12:41:25 Tower sSMTP[17049]: Sent mail for [email protected] (221 2.0.0 closing connection af79cd13be357-7bce3248c9fsm626070685a.50 - gsmtp) uid=0 username=root outbytes=797
November 20, 2025Nov 20 bumping this as i also noticed this in my log. @bmartino1 is not understanding the problem correctly. it doesnt seem to always occur. most of the time email notifications go to where they are configure correctly. but today, while upgrading to 7.2.1, i noticed it was indicating send to [email protected], which is NOT configured on my side. if i had to guess, its a non-gui setting somewhere for the root user?
November 20, 2025Nov 20 Community Expert 51 minutes ago, oliver said:bumping this as i also noticed this in my log. @bmartino1 is not understanding the problem correctly.it doesnt seem to always occur. most of the time email notifications go to where they are configure correctly. but today, while upgrading to 7.2.1, i noticed it was indicating send to [email protected], which is NOT configured on my side. if i had to guess, its a non-gui setting somewhere for the root user?then make a dam bug report. I understand the issue just fine.. I don't know how to explain why it did what it did nor how to croect it... As I mvoed on and out of unriads notfication sytem for myself due to its limitations...thed problem will be and alwsy will be what was snet by x to x and how they are configured to do so....
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