Re: When no MTA is installed, How to send an email with a cronjob?

[Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am 21.07.2013 10:42, schrieb Indunil Jayasooriya:
> Hi,
> 
> When no MTA is installed, How to send an email with a cronjob?
> 
> I have below entrty in my cronjob?
> 
> my /etc/cron.d/backup file looks like this.
> 
> MAILTO=myemail@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 15 11 * * * root /root/scripts/backup.sh
> 
> Can I send this email via SMTP server?

If you decide a full blown MTA is too heavy weight in your environment
on the different nodes (Postfix isn't the ideal choice for a so called
null client), then have a look at ssmtp for example. It is provided by EPEL

http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/epel-x86_64/ssmtp-2.61-19.el6.x86_64.rpm.html

It does exactly what you intend to do.

There is another null client called msmtp

http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/

but that one isn't available being packaged for CentOS.

> Hope to hear from you.

Alexander


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