On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 07:23:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/21/07 19:06, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > > Grok Mogger wrote: > >> 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. > >> > > > > What leads you to think it won't? All cron does is invoke your system > > mail program. > > Spoken like a true Unix geek. ;P > > OP has grown up in the "client" world, where all the heavy lifting > is done by "someone else". I was there once, too. > > > Why not just try it. If it doesn't work, then set MAILTO=<a local > > account> then set up an alias or a .forward file to forward that account > > to your gmail account. > > OP most probably has no idea what a .forward file is (other than "it > forwards 'stuff'").
The most amazing moment in the development of my *nix geekness was the realization that *nix *is* the internet. My MTA is no different from the MTA of any big internet provider or host. A
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