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stardotstar

02-28-2012 03:51 AM

Really simple cron to send an email every week to confirm mail is working

Hi all, I wonder if anyone can suggest a simple cron entry I can run weekly to let me know that email is working from a host I have that has had some domain mx and resolution issues.

I would like say an email to a particular email account using the localhost relay saying "mail is up and running" and that is it.

Can anyone suggest a best approach?
Will

Cedrik

02-28-2012 04:34 AM

Something like this ?

Code:

* * * * 0 /usr/bin/mail -s "mail testing" "user_to_test@host" < /home/user/message_file.txt

Will send mail every sunday (0) to user_to_test@host, subject is mail testing and content of message is in /home/user/message_file.txt

stardotstar

03-01-2012 05:40 PM

Thank you so much I will test and confirm result are as expected - I think this is perfect! Thank you.

stardotstar

03-01-2012 07:55 PM

Perfect; thank you so much.

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