Am 21.07.2013 10:42, schrieb Indunil Jayasooriya: > 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? If you decide a full blown MTA is too heavy weight in your environment on the different nodes (Postfix isn't the ideal choice for a so called null client), then have a look at ssmtp for example. It is provided by EPEL http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/epel-x86_64/ssmtp-2.61-19.el6.x86_64.rpm.html It does exactly what you intend to do. There is another null client called msmtp http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ but that one isn't available being packaged for CentOS. > Hope to hear from you. Alexander