Re: options to notify login error
INGeSI di Alessandro Barisone <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.getmail.user |
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On 27/08/20 11:40, Martin Gregorie wrote: > I run getmail from a cron job which executes every 10 minutes to fetch > mail from a single source, split the incoming mail into two streams: one > is delivered locally while the other is passed to Postfix for delivery. > > If getmail is unable to contact to the source, the cron script returns > an error and crond reports this error to root via an email. This is > default error handling for crond. I have my email system configured to > redirect all mail for root to myself. > > So, since I assume that you'll also be using crond to periodically > execute getmail, all you need to do is to configure the cron script to > make crond send any getmail failure messages directly to yourself. > > Martin > Thank you for your hint, it was useful and works fine. I'd like to add a suggestion: to have a better management of mail notifications from cron I found this on google: https://habilis.net/cronic/ So I'll receive a more detailed email only in case of errors Thank you Alessandro -- INGeSI di Barisone Ing. Alessandro Piazza Unità Nazionale 26 18100 Imperia (IM) www.ingesi.it - [email protected] Tel. 0183-738038 Cell. 324-0907445