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Re: ssmtp and cron

From: Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 11:12:31 -0500
Subject: Re: ssmtp and cron
References: <200301020847.h028lCO19163@mailgate5.cinetic.de><3E15AAD8.907@ikg.uni-bonn.de>

Matthias,

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 04:23:04PM +0100, Matthias Bobzien wrote:
> I have the same symptoms: cron works, ssmtp works, but cron can't send
> mails via ssmtp.

I have found that some SMTP servers do not accept mail with unqualified
domain names.  This may be your problem.

In the past, I have patched cron to "send mail" via procmail.  Now, I
just use exim and configure it to accept unqualified domain names from
localhost.

Jason

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References:
- ssmtp and cron
  - From: Dirk Ziegenbalg
- Re: ssmtp and cron
  - From: Matthias Bobzien

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