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Re: How to configure cron's mail?
René Berber wrote:
> Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
>
>> Can I configure where cron sends the mail to? It seems to be
>> "user@localhost", where user is the account cron is running under,
>> but I would like it to go to "otheruser@somewhere.com".
>
> Yes, in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, but when you install the ssmtp package
> you are supposed to run ssmtp-config. Anyway you can edit the file,
> just define root and rewriteDomain so that cron uses those.
I forgot to add that there is a second option: specify MAILTO inside crontab.
In fact that is a more flexible option, you could make cron send emails to several addresses, also to different ones for each job.
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René Berber
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