Re: cron-apt with no mta

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

Am 2006-11-13 11:52:45, schrieb Rob Bochan:
> I'm interested in the cron-apt package.
> Is anyone aware if there's any way for it to send a message to an external 
> mail (i.e. to a gmail account, etc.) without having an MTA installed on the 
> machine? Perhaps some settings like the reportbug package does? I'm 
> interesting in using it to keep machines up to date, but I have no intention 
> of installing a mail server to do so.

A MTA is required for the Debian System, otherwise
it will break MANY things

But you could install a simpe MTA like "ssmtp"
which I use on all of my machines to get mail out
of my system witout being capable to receive mails.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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