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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 10:17:07 -0500
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587
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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?