Showing posts with label sendmail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sendmail. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

sendmail from cron with Zimbra

Today I've faced the problem of sending admin emails from cron, in a machine with Zimbra installed. Zimbra comes with a Postfix installation so, using a 2nd Postfix( or exim, or sendmail) in parallel with the Zimbra's one, could lead you to dangerous places.
With this in mind I've found a simple and fast way to send emails without the needs to touch any system configuration.
Supposing that you want to launch the "ls /" command with the root user, you can write this line:
* * * * * root (echo "Subject: Cron ls /";echo;ls /) | /opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/sendmail admin@zimbrams.com

Within round brackets there's the subject, followed by the output of the command, followed by the recipient.
Simple, fast, secure.