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

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.