Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?

[Benjamin Lee <ben@b1c1l1.com>]

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On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:05:52 -0500, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:
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> I think all I need to do is figure out how to tell cron to send emails 
> the same way as portage using sender:passwd@smtp.example.com:587 (using 
> TLS), but alas, my google-fu is failing on this one... I can't find a 
> single mention anywhere of alternate examples of sending emails with 
> cron, much less using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax...
> 
> So... anyone? I can't imagine it isn't possible... ?

You're asking about cron, which is the wrong question.

Run a local MTA and have it relay everything through the remote SMTP
server.  This is 3 lines in a Postfix configuration file [1] (only 1
line if you don't require authentication).  Any MTA can do this, as it
is a very common setup.

Then all programs (not just cron) that use the sendmail binary or relay
to localhost:25 will work automatically.

[1] http://www.postfix.org/SOHO_README.html#client_sasl_enable


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Benjamin Lee
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