On 11/15/20 5:00 AM, Marjorie Roome via Dng wrote:
On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 16:03 -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
I use Thunderbird for e-mail, so I have never bothered with
configuring an MTA.
I have a few lines in root's crontab to do periodic backups and I
would
like to receive an e-mail when the job is completed. I have added a
MAILTO line to my crontab with my gmail address. The job runs, the
backup is created, but I do not receive any e-mail from cron. I am
assuming that I need to run dpkg-reconfigure on exim4-config, but I
don't want to mess up my e-mail that is going through Thunderbird.
Can anyone tell me how to configure exim4-config to do this, or
provide a link that will rpovide this information?
If this is a cron job running on your local machine then rather than
having to fully comnfigure your MTA to send acceptable emails to gmail
(i.e. static ip, spf, dkim, etcetera) it would be simpler to enable
local delivery to your local email account. You can then just read this
by setting up an account in Thunderbird (it's a mbox file so use the
spool option) and it will remain segregated from your gmail.
I came to this conclusion, too, but, so far, have been unable to get
local delivery working, either. I have tried running 'maIl marc' then
filled in subject and body, then ended with CTL-D. Is CTL-D the correct
way to end the message and send the e-mail? Is there something else
that I need to do to actually send the message? It may be that the
various things that I have tried have borked local delivery. What
should I have installed and how should it be configured to deliver mail
to my local user?
Clearly, I am doing something wrong, I just don't know what.
Marc
Rather than redirect the cron mail output I just let root user jobs go
to the default root account and alias that to my local email account
(using /etc/aliases and the newalliases command).
This will then also pick up any other root jobs that generate emails
(in my case unattended-upgrades of security updates, and failed
logins).
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