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Don't know your environment or anything about esmtp (I guess client for sending email called by cron?), but does this help:
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<b>Sent:</b> 13 May 2026 7:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> rancid-discuss@www.shrubbery.net <rancid-discuss@www.shrubbery.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [rancid] Completely disable mail functionality in 3.14?</font>
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<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I noticed that the logs on our RANCID machine were growing quite large.</p>
<p>I determined that it is because it's writing 10MB of this half of the time rancid-run runs:</p>
<p>No configuration file found at /home/rancid/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc<br>
No configuration file found at /home/rancid/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc<br>
No configuration file found at /home/rancid/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc<br>
No configuration file found at /home/rancid/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc<br>
No configuration file found at /home/rancid/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc<br>
No configuration file found at /home/rancid/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc</p>
<p>So then I created a blank .esmtprc file that caused it to start logging two lines for each thing that I don't want it doing in the first place. ;)</p>
<p>File /home/rancid/.esmtprc must have no more than -rwx--x--- (0710) permissions.<br>
open: /home/rancid/.esmtprc: Success</p>
<p>OK fine, I fixed that.</p>
<p>How do I just disable every single thing to do with SMTP .esmtprc, etc?</p>
<p>Thank you so much if anyone can assist me.</p>
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