How to setup to email logs with the mail command?

okos · 03-09-2008, 01:25 AM

Hi
This is my situation, I set up logrotate to send emails to my email address, myemailaddress@gmail.com.

logrotate.conf uses the "mail" command to send mail here is a quote from the man pages:

Quote:

--mail <command>
Tells logrotate which command to use when mailing logs. This command should accept two arguments: 1) the subject of the message, and 2) the recipient. The command must then read a message on standard input and mail it to the recipient. The default mail command is /bin/mail -s.

Now here is the kicker, I assume that I have to configure "mail" for smtp.gmail.com, and my port number and secure tsl. How do I set that up?

Thanks a bunch

mpier · 03-10-2008, 03:31 PM

Hi,
did you try google search, or man mail? Simple .mailrc:

Code:

account gmail {
set smtp-use-starttls
set ssl-verify=ignore
set smtp=smtp.gmail.com:587
#set smtp-auth=login
set smtp-auth-user=name@gmail.com
set smtp-auth-password=pass
set from=name@gmail.com
}

okos · 03-10-2008, 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mpier

Hi,
did you try google search, or man mail? Simple .mailrc:[

Thanks a bunch for the reply

Ill try what you stated.

I did not do a search on, "man mail"; however, I did google different orders of , mail, mailx, setup, configure...
The sites I found did not quite answer my question.

Thanks again
okos