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Re: Using ssmtp called in a script called by a crontab entry...
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: "Blaine Miller" <bmiller at coastside dot net>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:05:00 -0400
- Subject: Re: Using ssmtp called in a script called by a crontab entry...
- References: <4C6EF8E2.1000404@coastside.net>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Blaine Miller"
To: <cygwin>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 17:51
| Hello,
|
| I have a need for ssmtp to send out a *job completed* email from within
| a script that is called as an entry in a cron table. I've read all I can
| from the *Installing and configuring ssmtp* man pages as well as the
| Knowledgebase and FAQ's on the cygwin site. From what I gather it should
| be possible to do this.
Seen from the cron point of view, if the cron job produces any output on stdout
or stderr, the output will be placed in an e-mail sent to you (you can configure the
address in the MAILTO variable).
As as recall, the ssmtp-config script will ask you if you want sendmail to point to
ssmtp. If you answer yes, cron will use ssmtp to send the e-mail.
Pierre
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