Interworking of cron and sendmail applets

Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen at iki.fi
Wed Jan 22 23:25:45 UTC 2014


Hi,

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:29:14PM +0100, Harald Becker wrote:
> I do not know, why this option has made mandatory, but as far as
> i know does BB sendmail always need some extra options to know
> where to send the mail (mail relay), and will not work without
> this information. So it is of no extra cost to add the sender
> option at the same time.

The server can be specified with an environment variable, so you
could still get that part working. I think Kaarle has a valid point
that busybox cron should be able to call busybox sendmail without
wrapper scripts etc.

A.


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