ssmtp to email cron output
ssmtp to email cron output Cron output in Ubuntu gets discarded. The default install of Ubuntu does not install a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), so cron cannot mail you the output. You can install an MTA -several are easily available in the Ubuntu repositories- but configuration is not trivial. MTAs date from before the IMAP- and SMTP-based e-mail systems we use today, which makes them highly flexible and configurable...but not necessarily the easiest solution. ssmtp is a limited-purpose MTA intended to replace the mail command and send all output to an SMTP mailserver. ssmtp is provided by the ssmtp package. Install sudo apt-get install ssmtp Configuration file #1: /etc/ssmtp/ssmpt.conf This tells ssmtp how to send email to my account. Its not the best idea to store your e-mail password in world-readable plain text. See how to protect the password properly. # Config file for sSMTP sendmail # # The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000 # Make this empty to disable rewriting. root...