Re: How does Cron send email?
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Grok Mogger wrote:
I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under what
conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. I know
that cron just sends the output of whatever script it runs. I don't
understand how it mails that output. I'd like to understand how it does that
so that I can make it send email to a gmail account or a similar "real"
Internet account.
Through /usr/sbin/sendmail (which you will have even if you use a mail
transfer agent other than sendmail such as exim or postfix.)
Are you telling me that if I set my MAILTO entry to something like
'Joe.Person@gmail.com', that's actually going to send legitimate Internet
mail to Joe at his gmail account? I find that hard to believe.
Assuming your MTA is correctly configured to send mail to the internet,
sure, why not?
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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