[SOLVED] Re: crontab mails to external smtp host

2011-09-18 Thread Steven
On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 15:17 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Steven wrote: > > I manage several Debian servers (etch and squeeze), not related to one > > another, and they all have some crontab jobs scheduled such as backup > > scripts. When these cronjobs are run, the output is e-mailed to the > > loca

Re: crontab mails to external smtp host

2011-09-18 Thread Steven
On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 22:43 +0200, Juan Sierra Pons wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, it can be done configuring Exim to send emails to external > domains using a smarthost. Excellent. > > 1.- Configure properly /etc/aliases and add a default user to receive > emails. For example > [...] > 2.- Configure e

Re: crontab mails to external smtp host

2011-09-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Steven wrote: > I manage several Debian servers (etch and squeeze), not related to one > another, and they all have some crontab jobs scheduled such as backup > scripts. When these cronjobs are run, the output is e-mailed to the > local admin account on the system. Is it possible to configure these

Re: crontab mails to external smtp host

2011-09-18 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/09/11 21:43, Juan Sierra Pons wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, it can be done configuring Exim to send emails to external > domains using a smarthost. hello yee but to just send admin emails nullmailer is enough and the easiest to confiugre from any soft

Re: crontab mails to external smtp host

2011-09-18 Thread Juan Sierra Pons
Hi, Yes, it can be done configuring Exim to send emails to external domains using a smarthost. 1.- Configure properly /etc/aliases and add a default user to receive emails. For example # /etc/aliases mailer-daemon: postmaster postmaster: root nobody: root hostmaster: root usenet: root news: root