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Platform: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
User: root
Desc: If there is any output to stdout/stderr in execution, crontab will collect them and mail to correspond owner. In my case, it is 'root'. When I look at syslog, I found an error:
Jan 18 15:53:01 ali00 CRON[10261]: (root) CMD (some command)
Jan 18 15:53:03 ali00 sSMTP[10265]: 553 Mail from must equal authorized user
Jan 18 15:53:03 ali00 CRON[10260]: (root) MAIL (mailed 1 byte of output; but got status 0x0001, #012)
(In my system, I use ssmtp to send mail)
Since I cannot see any detail, how to debug this error? Do I need to change something in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf? Furthermore, there is no mail command in my system, how does crontab know to use ssmtp rather than mail?
ShenLei
Posted 2015-01-18T08:52:50.607
Reputation: 333
Oh, I found the solution. Just edit /etc/ssmtp/revaliases to set the real email address for each account. – ShenLei – 2015-02-05T02:50:11.973