On Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:53, 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.
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.
Believe it. Cron will send it whereever you want it to. setting the MAILTO
to randomuser@gmail.com is not different than forwarding a local user's
account to that same gmail account. Linux is very amiable to you wishes. :)
What do you mean "legitimate internet mail?" What would illegitimate internet
mail be?
As far as *how* it does it, I believe it just pipes the output of the commands
run to either the mail command or the sendmail command, but I could be wrong.
Instead of asking us if MAILTO a gmail account will work, and waiting for a
reply, you could just try it, you know. :)
j