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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:48:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080122154805.189f89f2@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080122073646.099a5bea@lbg2.evolone.org>

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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote:

> Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting
> emails? The test is simple, just "echo hello world". I expect this
> to come as an email to the address I put in MAILTO="". But it doesn't.

It works on several boxes here. Is ssmtp working correctly? Try

echo -e "To: Me\nSubject: ssmtp test\n\nssmtp test" | /usr/sbin/ssmtp youraddress 

If it fails, check /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, particularly the mailhub
setting.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Windows Error #10: Insufficient money spent in hardware.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-22 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-22 15:36 [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp Michael Higgins
2008-01-22 15:48 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2008-01-22 16:18   ` Ricardo Saffi Marques
2008-01-22 16:18     ` Ricardo Saffi Marques
2008-01-22 16:19   ` Michael Higgins
2008-01-22 16:32     ` Greg Bowser
2008-01-22 16:34     ` [gentoo-user] " Guilherme Amadio
2008-01-22 16:40       ` Ricardo Saffi Marques
2008-01-22 16:50         ` Ricardo Saffi Marques
2008-01-22 16:37     ` [gentoo-user] " Ricardo Saffi Marques
2008-01-22 21:37       ` Jan Seeger
2008-01-23  0:52         ` Michael Higgins

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