Miles Fidelman wrote:
Grok Mogger wrote:
I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically
sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real
Internet email so instead of just getting mail on my unix accounts on
my linux box (which I read via the 'mail' command) I can get email at
my gmail account.
Basic answer comes from the manpage for cron:
When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner
of the
crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable
in the
crontab, if such exists).
so... simple answer is define MAILTO in your crontab
broader answer depends on what mail you want sent - you can always
include a sendmail command in whatever script you're running
Miles
I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and
under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is
HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of
whatever script it runs. I don't understand how it mails that
output. I'd like to understand how it does that so that I can
make it send email to a gmail account or a similar "real"
Internet account.
Are you telling me that if I set my MAILTO entry to something
like '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', that's actually going to send
legitimate Internet mail to Joe at his gmail account? I find
that hard to believe.
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