Re: ssmtp and cron

["Elfyn" <emcb_exposure at hotmail dot com>]

Hi,

How about starting over... backup your config files first with an extension
like .bak.

1. run /usr/bin/ssmtp-config

    [root@w3:~] # ssmtp-config
    Please enter the full qualified hostname (foo.bar.baz) of your box:
haringayyouth-2.dsl.easynet.co.uk
    Please enter the "mail name" of your system.  This is the hostname
    portion of the address to be shown on outgoing news and mail messages.
    The default is haringayyouth-2.dsl.easynet.co.uk, your system's host
name.

    Mail name [haringayyouth-2.dsl.easynet.co.uk]:

    Please enter the full qualified hostname of your mail hub: localhost
    Please enter the smtp port number [25]:

    Please check the configuration file /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf for
correctness.

2. edit your /etc/ssmtp/revaliases file to look something along these lines

    [root@w3:/etc/ssmtp] # cat revaliases
    # sSMTP aliases
    #
    # Format:       local_account:outgoing_address:mailhub
    #
    # Example: root:your_login@your.domain:mailhub.your.domain:[port]
    # where [port] is an optional port number that defaults to 25.
    root:emcb_exposure@hotmail.com:localhost:25
    admin:ops@exposure.org.uk:localhost:25
    elfyn:home@elfyn-local.net:localhost:25

3. edit your crontab(s)...

    [root@w3:/etc/ssmtp] # crontab -l
    # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
    # (/tmp/crontab.816 installed on Sun Oct  6 20:31:50 2002)
    # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.6 2001/09/19 17:09:55 corinna Exp
$)
    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
    SHELL=/bin/sh
    MAILTO=root

    * * * * * /usr/bin/date
    * * * * * /lost/bin/cleanroot.sh

WHAT HAPPENS, you ask...

When the cron daemon see's the MAILTO envvar it knows to send all output
from your tab to that local user, in this case root which was defined in my
revaliases file. So all mail for local user root will goto
emcb_exposure@hotmail.com... This is done via ssmtp.

Remember, when your setting up to use your own hosts.

Elfyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Uwe Mayer" <merkosh@hadiko.de>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 5:54 PM
Subject: ssmtp and cron


> Can somebody enlighten me how ssmtp and cron work together, please?
>
> F.e. what is the /etc/ssmtp/revaliases file for (which looks for me):
> admin:merkosh@hadiko.de:smtp.hadiko.de:25
> merkosh:merkosh@hadiko.de:smtp.hadiko.de:25
>
> As far as I understood this, if mails are send *to* merkosh
> ssmtp would get the destination e-mail and smtp host from this file -
> right?
> But calling "/usr/sbin/ssmtp merkosh" from the command line won't
> work. (after supplying a dummy body)
>
> Then to the /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf file (which looks for me):
> root=admin
> mailhub=smtp.hadiko.de
> rewriteDomain="Uwe Mayer"       #or: rewriteDomain=m111.hadiko.de
> hostname=m111.hadiko.de
> FromLineOverride=YES
>
> admin is the login name of the administrator. So mails to root
> should be send to user "admin" and his e-mail is looked up in
> /etc/ssmtp/revaliases ??
>
> Then the "sending mails from crontabs":
> My crontab contained:
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> MAILTO=merkosh
> * * * * * /usr/bin/date
>
> And I expected mails send to user "merkosh" (<- as in man 5 crontab)
> who's e-mail is looked up from /etc/ssmtp/revaliases...?
>
> This didn't work. I get a letter.dead file in my home folder and the
> following line in /var/log/cron.log:
>
> /usr/sbin/ssmtp: smtp server didn't accept MAIL From, replied "553 5.5.4
<root>... Domain name required for sender address root".
>
>
> What works is:
>
> * * * * * /usr/bin/date | /usr/sbin/ssmtp merkosh@hadiko.de
>
> which is unsattisfying, because it should work without the pipe... :(
>
> Any ideas?
> Ciao
> Uwe
>
>
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