RE: ssmtp and cron

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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 : Cygwi

Re: ssmtp and cron

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

RE: ssmtp and cron

Friday, January 03, 2003 10:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 m

Re: ssmtp and cron

Mark and Jason, thanks for the quick responses! Harig, Mark A. wrote: > 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 > I considered that before, s

Re: ssmtp and cron

Matthias, On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 06:43:01PM +0100, Matthias Bobzien wrote: > Mark and Jason, thanks for the quick responses! You are welcome. > Jason Tishler wrote: > > I have found that some SMTP servers do not accept mail with > > unqualified domain names. This may be your problem. > > > > I

RE: ssmtp and cron

> Sorry for that lengthy posting but I'm a little bit lost with > this problem. > Actually, it is better to provide details of what steps you took and what responses you got than it is to simply say "it will not work for me". It might be helpful if you posted the contents of your /etc/ssmtp/ssm

Re: ssmtp and cron

Dirk: I don't recall having the problem you're experiencing, but I'll give it a whirl tomorrow @ work and let you know what I find.  I do remember getting mail from cygwin-cron at one point in time, but I don't recall what I did to make it work.  If I get to work, I'll let you know how. David

Re: ssmtp and cron

Hi, How about starting over... backup your config files first with an extension like .bak. 1. run /usr/bin/ssmtp-config [root@w3:~] # ssmtp-config Please enter the full qualified hostname (foo.bar.baz) of your box: haringayyouth-2.dsl.easynet.co.uk Please enter the "mail name" of yo

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 mentio