Re: sending short emails

2025-05-01 Thread Eben King
On 4/30/25 15:24, Eben King wrote: On 4/30/25 13:36, john doe wrote: On 4/30/25 17:35, Eben King wrote: I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to myself from cron.  Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever, just a few words.  Well, ssmtp is unmaint

Re: sending short emails

2025-04-30 Thread Eben King
On 4/30/25 15:25, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 15:21:26 -0400, Eben King wrote: I guess I don't currently have an MTA. eben@cerberus:~$ type sendmail bash: type: sendmail: not found 1 The sendmail program (or symlink) lives in /usr/sbin which is probably not in your PATH as

Re: sending short emails

2025-04-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 15:21:26 -0400, Eben King wrote: > I guess I don't currently have an MTA. > > eben@cerberus:~$ type sendmail > bash: type: sendmail: not found > 1 The sendmail program (or symlink) lives in /usr/sbin which is probably not in your PATH as user eben. (There's also a histori

Re: sending short emails

2025-04-30 Thread Eben King
On 4/30/25 13:36, john doe wrote: On 4/30/25 17:35, Eben King wrote: I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to myself from cron.  Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever, just a few words.  Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't get it to work reli

Re: sending short emails

2025-04-30 Thread Eben King
On 4/30/25 12:51, Dan Ritter wrote: Eben King wrote: I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever, just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't get it to work reliably with my email

Re: sending short emails

2025-04-30 Thread Thomas Dineen
This is caused by Biden's Inflation! It would have been 5K before Biden took office! On 4/30/2025 9:07 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:35:49 -0400 Eben King wrote: Hello Eben, I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to myself from cron. Short thin

Re: sending short emails

2025-04-30 Thread john doe
On 4/30/25 17:35, Eben King wrote: I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to myself from cron.  Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever, just a few words.  Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't get it to work reliably with my email server (which is no

Re: sending short emails

2025-04-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:35:49 -0400 Eben King wrote: Hello Eben, >I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to >myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or >whatever, just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't >get it to work reliably

Re: sending short emails

2025-04-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Eben King wrote: > I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to > myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever, > just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't get it to work > reliably with my email server (which is not gmail). Wh

Re: sending short emails

2025-04-30 Thread Will Mengarini
* Greg [25-04/30=Wed 15:59 -]: > On 2025-04-30, Eben King wrote: > > I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to > > myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever, > > just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't get it to > >

Re: sending short emails

2025-04-30 Thread Greg
On 2025-04-30, Eben King wrote: > I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to > myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever, > just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't get it to > work reliably with my email server (which

sending short emails

2025-04-30 Thread Eben King
I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever, just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't get it to work reliably with my email server (which is not gmail). What can I use to replac