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Re: ssmtp and cron


Hi,

I forgot to mention this bit of important info...

Unless you config file has the domain that you use for email (hadiko.de) in
the rewriteDomain directive it will not work correctly. Also if you use
other names other than the one in front of the `@' it may cause probs...

Sorry i didnt mention this before.

Elfyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Uwe Mayer" <merkosh@hadiko.de>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 5:54 PM
Subject: ssmtp and cron


> Can somebody enlighten me how ssmtp and cron work together, please?
>
> F.e. what is the /etc/ssmtp/revaliases file for (which looks for me):
> admin:merkosh@hadiko.de:smtp.hadiko.de:25
> merkosh:merkosh@hadiko.de:smtp.hadiko.de:25
>
> As far as I understood this, if mails are send *to* merkosh
> ssmtp would get the destination e-mail and smtp host from this file -
> right?
> But calling "/usr/sbin/ssmtp merkosh" from the command line won't
> work. (after supplying a dummy body)
>
> Then to the /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf file (which looks for me):
> root=admin
> mailhub=smtp.hadiko.de
> rewriteDomain="Uwe Mayer"       #or: rewriteDomain=m111.hadiko.de
> hostname=m111.hadiko.de
> FromLineOverride=YES
>
> admin is the login name of the administrator. So mails to root
> should be send to user "admin" and his e-mail is looked up in
> /etc/ssmtp/revaliases ??
>
> Then the "sending mails from crontabs":
> My crontab contained:
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> MAILTO=merkosh
> * * * * * /usr/bin/date
>
> And I expected mails send to user "merkosh" (<- as in man 5 crontab)
> who's e-mail is looked up from /etc/ssmtp/revaliases...?
>
> This didn't work. I get a letter.dead file in my home folder and the
> following line in /var/log/cron.log:
>
> /usr/sbin/ssmtp: smtp server didn't accept MAIL From, replied "553 5.5.4
<root>... Domain name required for sender address root".
>
>
> What works is:
>
> * * * * * /usr/bin/date | /usr/sbin/ssmtp merkosh@hadiko.de
>
> which is unsattisfying, because it should work without the pipe... :(
>
> Any ideas?
> Ciao
> Uwe
>
>
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