Cron & ssmtp timeouts

[Jason Tishler]

Gerrit,

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:03:56PM +0200, Gerrit Cap wrote:
> I have a few batch jobs that I would like to schedule using cron and have 
> the output e-mailed. For small jobs this works fine but for jobs that run 
> for a period of time no e-mail is being sent. Instead after snooping around 
> I found this error message in /var/log/cron.log:
> /usr/sbin/ssmtp: connection lost in the middle of processing, exiting.

I had similar problems.

> Any ideas how to solve this ?

Yes, if you are willing to use procmail and read the cron mail (only)
locally, see the attached patch.  I have patched my cron to deliver mail
via procmail instead of ssmtp in order to:

    o solve the above problem 
    o prevent mail servers from removing the X-Cron-Env header fields
    o remove the dependency of multiple mail hops just to send mail
      to myself

Jason
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--- config.h.orig	Tue Jan  8 10:22:06 2002
+++ config.h	Tue Jan  8 10:24:25 2002
@@ -41,8 +41,11 @@
 			 * (hint: MAILTO= was added for this reason).
 			 */
 
-#define MAILCMD _PATH_SENDMAIL					/*-*/
-#define MAILARGS "%s -FCronDaemon -odi -oem %s"			/*-*/
+#define MAILCMD "/usr/local/bin/procmail"
+#define MAILARGS "%s -d %s"
+
+/* #define MAILCMD _PATH_SENDMAIL					-*/
+/* #define MAILARGS "%s -FCronDaemon -odi -oem %s"			-*/
 			/* -Fx	 = set full-name of sender
 			 * -odi	 = Option Deliverymode Interactive
 			 * -oem	 = Option Errors Mailedtosender

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