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linux:linux-tutorials:send-command-output-via-email [2025/09/08 16:43] – ↷ Page name changed from linux:linux-tutorials:send-crontab-output-via-email to linux:linux-tutorials:send-command-output-via-email Zyzonixlinux:linux-tutorials:send-command-output-via-email [2025/09/08 18:09] (current) – Zyzonix
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-===== Send output of crontab via email with sendmail =====+===== Send output of command via email with sendmail =====
  
-This guide shows how to configure a crontab script to send it's output via email. +This guide shows how to configure a script to send it's output via email. 
-Thereby that the ''MAILTO='' setting in crontabs is global, it's not that easy to send an email to a different address from another crontab files.+Thereby that the ''MAILTO='' setting in crontabs is global, it's not that easy to send an email to a different address from another crontab files. This function/script can be used to send the output of a crontab to a different address:
  
-The crontab should then look like this: +<panel type="primary" icon="glyphicon glyphicon-file" title="/path/to/script">
-<panel type="primary" icon="glyphicon glyphicon-file" title="/path/to/crontab">+
 <code bash> <code bash>
 #!/bin/bash #!/bin/bash
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 crontab () { crontab () {
 + echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
 +        echo "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"UTF-8\""
         echo "From: $SENDER"         echo "From: $SENDER"
-        echo "Subject: Cron <$SENDER> $SCRIPT_DIR/$SCRIPT_NAME "+        echo "Subject: <$SENDER> $SCRIPT_DIR/$SCRIPT_NAME "
         echo "To: $RECIPIENT"         echo "To: $RECIPIENT"
  
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         echo ""         echo ""
-        echo "Crontab location: $SCRIPT_DIR/$SCRIPT_NAME"+        echo "Script location: $SCRIPT_DIR/$SCRIPT_NAME"
 } }
  
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