Comments on: Linux / UNIX: Change Crontab Email Settings ( MAILTO )

By: mehturt

mehturt — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:42:38 +0000

What command is cron using to send email? I’m trying to get cron working with esmtp, but no luck so far.

By: martijn

martijn — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:02:03 +0000

@alex: add >/dev/null 2>&1 to the end of your line(s) in crontab. This will redirect all crontab output to /dev/null

By: alex

alex — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 02:33:07 +0000

But, How if I dont want to receive notification from crontab? How to set it ? Because I’m monitoring mail server, and notification from crontab unnecessary for me.

By: Dmitri Minaev

Dmitri Minaev — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:25:54 +0000

Mail addressed to ‘root’ is often redirected to some other account using /etc/aliases. You might like to edit (or add) the line beginning with ‘root:’ to point to some other account.

By: maxo

maxo — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:48:08 +0000

SOLARIS does not support the MAILTO feature. Instead one needs to append the crontab entry with | mailto user@domain
Ex:
00 12 * * * run_command.sh | mail user@domain

By: Andre

Andre — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:15:04 +0000

Yes, that’s entirely possible. Just figure out if the emails are being sent with sendmail or postfix, then adjust their settings to reflect that. You could deploy address rewrites to achieve this, for example.

By: phanikumar

phanikumar — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:08:09 +0000

Hi All,

Please help me out..

I configured cron job under FTPPKR user.i’ll get mails from FTPPKR@xyz.com whenever cron runs..But whenever i need the mails to be delivered from GTPPKR@xyz.com user.

Is it possibe? If yes, please help me out..

By: Darren

Darren — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:40:23 +0000

I too have always the “.forward” option. This is done by the follwing…..

create a new file called .forward
vi /root/.forward

Enter the email address on the first line in the file.
youremail@address.com

Save (w) the file and exit (q)
:wq

Now, anytime the ‘root’ user get an email, it will automatically be forwarded to the address you specified in the .forward file.

You can also place the .forward file in users home directories /home/user1/.forward

Thanks for the info up above though, I’ll have to check that out.

By: Brock Tice

Brock Tice — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:17:09 +0000

Thanks, never even thought it could be changed, I always used my .forward for this. Very handy.