From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 10:17:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52878C73.7030803@libertytrek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131116150457.7a69ce57@digimed.co.uk>
On 2013-11-16 10:04 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:59:09 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
>> On 2013-11-16 9:56 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>>> So it uses SMTP by default, Python has standard libraries that make
>>> this simple, and only uses sendmail when you explicitly instruct it
>>> to do so.
>>
>> Ok... so... the question remains - can I tell cron to send mail the
>> same way?
>
> You don't, cron sends mail via sendmail, to the recipient specified by
> the MAILTO variable in the crontab file.
Thanks Neil, but... you said 'You don't'... not 'You CAN'T'...
Can you elaborate on this? If this is not possible - why is it not
possible? In other words, if portage can do it, why can't cron?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-16 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-16 14:05 [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax? Tanstaafl
2013-11-16 14:13 ` Tanstaafl
2013-11-16 14:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-11-16 14:59 ` Tanstaafl
2013-11-16 15:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-11-16 15:17 ` Tanstaafl [this message]
2013-11-16 17:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-11-16 17:42 ` Tanstaafl
2013-11-16 21:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-11-18 13:45 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd <at> host:587 syntax? James
2013-11-16 19:29 ` [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax? Benjamin Lee
2013-11-16 20:03 ` Tanstaafl
2013-11-16 20:25 ` Manuel McLure
2013-11-17 11:42 ` Tanstaafl
2013-11-17 11:45 ` Tanstaafl
2013-11-16 23:14 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-11-17 9:00 ` Peter Humphrey
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