On 2014-06-27, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:22:09 +0100, Mick wrote: > >>> You tell cron where to mail reports by setting MAILTO=you@wherever at >>> the top of /etc/crontab. It will then mail you every time a cronjob >>> produces output. >> >> Or complete the /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf and revaliases with the info I >> have sent you in this thread and set MAILTO=root in your >> /etc/crontab. >> >> I would think that your ISP providers in the US will be blocking >> outgoing port 25 to stop compromised MSWindows machines spamming the >> rest of us. If you use my suggestion there shouldn't be a problem. > > It makes no difference whether you address it directly to your ISP > address or via an alias. The ISP won't block port 25 connections to > its own servers from its own customers, otherwise none of them could > send email at all!
They _might_ block port 25 and require you to use SMTP/SSL on port 465. More likely, they would still allow an initial plaintext connection to port 25 and require use of the starttls command. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I wonder if I could at ever get started in the gmail.com credit world?