Steven wrote: > I manage several Debian servers (etch and squeeze), not related to one > another, and they all have some crontab jobs scheduled such as backup > scripts. When these cronjobs are run, the output is e-mailed to the > local admin account on the system. Is it possible to configure these > e-mails to be delivered to an external address over an external SMTP > server instead of locally? You can set up an alias for root in /etc/aliases to point to another host. Then all email to root will forward to the other address. root: root@other.example.com Normally after changing the aliases file you need to run 'newaliases' to rebuild the cache file. But I think exim does not need this. Alternatively if you only want to change the crontab output and nothing else then Vixie Cron (the default for most GNU/Linux distros) enables you to set the MAILTO variable. If your system has a default install of exim then very likely you can simply set the address. Put this in your crontab file and it will only affect that particular crontab. MAILTO = "root@other.example.com" > All systems where I would want to do this run Squeeze and use exim4 in a > default configuration as none of them are e-mail servers. But of course exim4 in a default configuration is an email server even if you are not thinking of it that way. The other suggestion to use nullmailer to simplify the MTA seems reasonable to me. I always use nullmailer for chroots. The other suggestion to reconfigure exim to use a smarthost is reasonable too. But I think probably more complicated than you need to do for what you are asking. Bob
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