[CentOS] When no MTA is installed, How to send an email with a cronjob?
Fred Smith
fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Sun Jul 21 12:07:01 UTC 2013
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 02:12:55PM +0530, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When no MTA is installed, How to send an email with a cronjob?
>
> I have below entrty in my cronjob?
>
> my /etc/cron.d/backup file looks like this.
>
> MAILTO=myemail at example.com
> 15 11 * * * root /root/scripts/backup.sh
>
> Can I send this email via SMTP server?
>
>
> Hope to hear from you.
There is a tool named SendEmail, which is a perl script that performs the
sending side (not receiving) of SMTP email handling. It's straightforward
to use via commandline, which is exactly what you would want to use from
a cron job:
http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/
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