On 5/7/20 9:25 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 5/7/20 7:48 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 5/6/20 11:34 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 07May2020 13:19, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 06May2020 20:20, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am reading up on esmtp which comes with the base install and
seemingly no mta needed?
Anyway
https://linux.die.net/man/5/esmtprc
shows how to config for sending an email via esmtp to an mta, but
not just local delivery...
The bottom of that manual entry describes the "mta" setting, and
says that esmtp relies on a local MTA for local delivery (addresses
without an "@"). So you'll need something additional anyway. May as
well go straight to a proper MTA.
And then, to my chagrin, I reread and see it provides example "mta"
values like:
/usr/bin/procmail -d %T
So you may be good there.
Would first have to install procmail for this.
It would be interesting to find a 'simple' python script to grab the
cron output and 'make' an email and appended to the spool/mail
I am finding things about python and email that is leading me down
many roads.
First is how does CRON even send emails? The MAILTO option triggers
where to send email, but what is the how? What is CRON using to grab
its output and stuff that into what emailer program?
My digging is that CRON needs some email server installed, like
postfix, before it will send emails of its stdout. But where is this
controlled so I can change it?
Ah, looking at man crond.5:
-m This option allows you to specify a shell command to
use for
sending Cron mail output instead of using sendmail(8)
This com‐
mand must accept a fully formatted mail message (with
headers)
on standard input and send it as a mail message to the
recipi‐
ents specified in the mail headers. Specifying the
string off
(i.e., crond -m off) will disable the sending of mail.
So all I need is a script at /usr/bin/mycron
#!/bin/sh
something
something
So what do I put in the -m arg and in mycron so that this output gets
appended to /var/spool/mail/MAILTO
?
Thanks
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