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On 2013-11-16 10:04 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:59:09 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>> On 2013-11-16 9:56 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>>> So it uses SMTP by default, Python has standard libraries that make |
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>>> this simple, and only uses sendmail when you explicitly instruct it |
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>>> to do so. |
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>> Ok... so... the question remains - can I tell cron to send mail the |
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>> same way? |
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> You don't, cron sends mail via sendmail, to the recipient specified by |
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> the MAILTO variable in the crontab file. |
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Thanks Neil, but... you said 'You don't'... not 'You CAN'T'... |
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Can you elaborate on this? If this is not possible - why is it not |
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possible? In other words, if portage can do it, why can't cron? |
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