ssmtp and cron

[Harig, Mark A.]

You might try setting the 'MAILTO' environment
variable in your crontab file.  Please see the
crontab(5) manual page for details about setting
environment variables:

  $ man 5 crontab

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Bobzien [mailto:bobzien@ikg.uni-bonn.de]
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 10:23 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: ssmtp and cron
> 
> 
> Dirk Ziegenbalg wrote:
> > 
> > can somebody help me please!!!!
> > I've got cron and ssmtp to run. It works fine.
> > When cron is started and wants to mail me a message, then 
> there was two error-entries in the eventlog und windows 2000. 
> First tells me:
> > 
> > sSMTP mail : Win32 Process Id = 0x668 : Cygwin Process Id = 
> 0x66C : unable to create a socket..
> > 
> > and the second:
> > 
> > sSMTP mail : Win32 Process Id = 0x668 : Cygwin Process Id = 
> 0x66C : can't open the smtp port (25) on mail.gmx.de..
> > 
> > because of the first error.
> > When I call ssmtp from the commandline then it works fine.
> > 
> > I've give it up after two days of trying. Cron did his 
> work. But I want his messages! Any ideas?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> funny, I had the same problems several months ago, tried to resolve it
> and finally gave up.
> 
> I have the same symptoms: cron works, ssmtp works, but cron can't send
> mails via ssmtp.
> 
> 'wget' doesn't work with cron either, and I get an additional
> information message within the eventlog:
> 
> /usr/sbin/cron : Win32 Process Id = 0x60C : Cygwin Process Id 
> = 0x60C :
> (bobzien) MAIL (mailed 735 bytes of output but got status 0xffffffff
> 
> Maybe someone can help us with this problem? I'll attach the output of
> 'cygcheck -s -v -r' and my 'ssmtp.conf'.
> 
> Matthias
> 
> -- 
> Matthias Bobzien
> bobzien@ikg.uni-bonn.de
> 

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