You might try setting the 'MAILTO' environment variable in your crontab file. Please see the crontab(5) manual page for details about setting environment variables:
$ man 5 crontab > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthias Bobzien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 10:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ssmtp and cron > > > Dirk Ziegenbalg wrote: > > > > can somebody help me please!!!! > > I've got cron and ssmtp to run. It works fine. > > When cron is started and wants to mail me a message, then > there was two error-entries in the eventlog und windows 2000. > First tells me: > > > > sSMTP mail : Win32 Process Id = 0x668 : Cygwin Process Id = > 0x66C : unable to create a socket.. > > > > and the second: > > > > sSMTP mail : Win32 Process Id = 0x668 : Cygwin Process Id = > 0x66C : can't open the smtp port (25) on mail.gmx.de.. > > > > because of the first error. > > When I call ssmtp from the commandline then it works fine. > > > > I've give it up after two days of trying. Cron did his > work. But I want his messages! Any ideas? > > Hi, > > funny, I had the same problems several months ago, tried to resolve it > and finally gave up. > > I have the same symptoms: cron works, ssmtp works, but cron can't send > mails via ssmtp. > > 'wget' doesn't work with cron either, and I get an additional > information message within the eventlog: > > /usr/sbin/cron : Win32 Process Id = 0x60C : Cygwin Process Id > = 0x60C : > (bobzien) MAIL (mailed 735 bytes of output but got status 0xffffffff > > Maybe someone can help us with this problem? I'll attach the output of > 'cygcheck -s -v -r' and my 'ssmtp.conf'. > > Matthias > > -- > Matthias Bobzien > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
