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What email does Cron use?
In addition to LOGNAME, HOME, and SHELL, cron(8) will look at MAILTO if it has any reason to send mail as a result of running commands in “this” crontab. If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), mail is sent to the user so named. If MAILTO is defined but empty (MAILTO=””), no mail will be sent.
What is the default mail server at the RHEL?
15.1. The default IMAP server under Red Hat Enterprise Linux is Dovecot and is provided by the dovecot package.
How do I send an email to multiple recipients on mailx?
How to Use Mailx to Send to Multiple Addresses
- Begin the mail command using the following syntax: mailx [-s “subject”].
- Enter the email address of your first recipient after the brackets.
- Enter the email address or addresses of any other recipients you wish to receive the message separated by a space.
What to do when Cron says No MTA installed?
This command will capture stdout AND stderr so you won’t see the No MTA installed message and you’ll see all your output in the syslog. If you don’t want to install an MTA (which I currently have no need for) you can pipe the results of the cron job to a log file.
Where do I Send my emails in Cron?
At this stage Cron will start to send emails. Everything that usually will be outputted to the STDOUT (if you are execute a command in the command line), including all error messages, will be sent to the local mailbox of the user that runs the Cronjob. The default location of local user’s mail boxes is /var/mail/.
How to send email with no MTA installed?
You’ll still need to install an MTA (mail transfer agent) to send the error emails though. Postfix is simple enough to install with: sudo apt-get install postfix You can set MAILTO=”” variable at the start of your crontab file.
Why do cron jobs try to email output to root?
This happens because your cron jobs are producing output and then the cron daemon tries to email that output to you (i.e. root). If you don’t need that output, the easiest way to solve this is to discard it at the crontab: