I have a couple of cron jobs that sometimes produce error output and would like to get a notification in my "real" email account, since I don't use my user's mailbox in my Ubuntu laptop, but cron (or is it postfix maybe) keeps trying to email the local root account.
I know I can add the MAILTO variable to the crontab:
ricardo@ricardo-laptop:~$ sudo crontab -l
MAILTO=redacted@gmail.com
# m h dom mon dow command
*/5 * * * * /home/ricardo/mrtg/cfg/run.sh
But it doesn't seem to pay any attention to it
I also tried adding my email to the /etc/aliases
file and running newaliases
ricardo@ricardo-laptop:~$ cat /etc/aliases
# See man 5 aliases for format
postmaster: root
root: redacted@gmail.com
ricardo: redacted@gmail.com
still, whenever cron wants to send an email it's still sending it to root@my.domain.com
:
ricardo@ricardo-laptop:/var/log$ tail mail.log
Aug 3 16:25:01 ricardo-laptop postfix/pickup[2002]: D985B310: uid=0 from=<root>
Aug 3 16:25:01 ricardo-laptop postfix/cleanup[4117]: D985B310: message-id=<20100803192501.D985B310@ricardo-laptop>
Aug 3 16:25:01 ricardo-laptop postfix/qmgr[2003]: D985B310: from=<root@144-68-247-190.fibertel.com.ar>, size=762, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Aug 3 16:25:03 ricardo-laptop postfix/smtp[4120]: D985B310: to=<root@144-68-247-190.fibertel.com.ar>, orig_to=<root>, relay=smtp.gmail.com[74.125.157.109]:25, delay=1.5, delays=0.38/0.02/0.9/0.18, dsn=5.7.0, status=bounced (host smtp.gmail.com[74.125.157.109] said: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. d1sm12275173anc.19 (in reply to MAIL FROM command))
Any suggestions? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, with everything up-to-date