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Ren=E9 Berber wrote:

> Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
>=20
>> Can I configure where cron sends the mail to? It seems to be=20
>> "user AT localhost", where user is the account cron is running under,
>> but I would like it to go to "otheruser AT somewhere DOT com".
>=20
> Yes, in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, but when you install the ssmtp package
> you are supposed to run ssmtp-config.  Anyway you can edit the file,
> just define root and rewriteDomain so that cron uses those.

I forgot to add that there is a second option: specify MAILTO inside cronta=
b.

In fact that is a more flexible option, you could make cron send emails to =
several addresses, also to different ones for each job.
--=20
Ren=E9 Berber


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