[PLUG] Make cron send an e-mail upon completion

Johnathan Mantey manteyjg at gmail.com
Tue Jan 28 00:03:20 UTC 2020


You're not telling "mail" to mail anything.  Since you're no longer piping
you need to redirect something to STDIN.

mail -s "my subject" $recipient <foo.blarg.barf

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 3:45 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:41:05 -0800
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:
>
> >>> mail: cannot send message: Process exited with a non-zero status
>
> Just to add something that I discovered: That error message is from
> mail, not from rsync. I get the same error message when I just try to
> send an e-mail from the command line directly without even running the
> rsync script.
>
> Also, I have mail and mailutils installed, but not much more. I want to
> keep this as simple as possible.
>
> I have used Claws-Mail for years and it has never failed me. I have
> plenty of software installed on this computer; I don't need or want
> additional mail clients. If I have to set up a complete mail server
> just to get a bash script to send me an e-mail, then better I should
> just give up the idea and find an easier way to get the rsync cron job
> script to notify me that it worked or didn't work.
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