Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp

[Jan Seeger <jan.seeger@thenybble.de>]

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On Tue, 22. Jan, Ricardo Saffi Marques spammed my inbox with 
> I think it's not a group issue. I put myself at cron and crontab groups,
> just in case. If it was a group thing, you wouldn't even be able to "crontab
> -e".
> I edit my cron table using: "crontab -e" (no extra parameters needed). Check
> it out by "crontab -l". For root, I do the same.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Saffi
> 
> On 1/22/08, Michael Higgins <linux@evolone.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:48:05 +0000
> > Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
<snip>

I am also getting mails from cron with ssmtp. However, I had to twiddle my mail server setup:
Since ssmtp does not specify a complete From: (or envelope from) adress, the server refused the
mail. I needed to allow messages without a from: adress to receive any mail from cron.
Regards
Jan
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