[ale] Setting up local mail on Ubuntu 16.04

[Pete Hardie]

It's not too terribly hard to write a program that will send mail to Gmail,
and (I presume) the other webmail providers.  You'd need to get a
authorization key set up, but that's also not terrible.


On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 12:32 PM Jonathan Meek via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> I am looking at setting up a simple mail server to send mail for knowing a
> backup fails so in my head it would work like so:
>
> - Backup script runs
> -if it fails, script sends mail to a local mailbox
> -I check the local mailbox and see the failed message
>
> I would send to an external email address but my understanding this is
> very painful to do setup and deal with due to filters. If I am wrong then I
> am happy to set that up.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jonathan
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>


-- 
Pete Hardie
--------
Better Living Through Bitmaps
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20180728/70a8141c/attachment.html>