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