I have a few Ubuntu boxes that run various cron jobs daily. As far as I know, there is no postfix or sendmail installed. What's the easiest and/or best way to get cron to send me an email when one of its jobs fail with an error?
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cron notifies root by default, this is local user mail delivery only. If you want to send emails to user@gmail.com, then install postfix (defaut conf with listen on localhost only) and modifies /etc/aliases to forward emails to root to user@gmail.com. Then run and you're all set |
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You need to configure MTA (postfix, sendmail or the debian standard: exim, etc.). It may be problematic though if you don't have public, static IP in business IP range as most other blocks are blacklisted because of spammers. |
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