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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:05:07
Message-Id: 20131116150457.7a69ce57@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax? by Tanstaafl
1 On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:59:09 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
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3 > On 2013-11-16 9:56 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
4 > > So it uses SMTP by default, Python has standard libraries that make
5 > > this simple, and only uses sendmail when you explicitly instruct it
6 > > to do so.
7 >
8 > Ok... so... the question remains - can I tell cron to send mail the
9 > same way?
10
11 You don't, cron sends mail via sendmail, to the recipient specified by
12 the MAILTO variable in the crontab file.
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 Keep your words soft and sweet in case you have to eat them.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax? Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>