Emails from cron to root

Rogerio

• November 06, 2018 06:50

Hello, I'm not receiving emails from Cron, because it returns that root@hostname is invalid... Like: (myhostname replaced the real fqn) 2018-11-06 10:42:02 1gK0gE-0006VR-Qs <= root@myhostname U=root P=local S=815 T="Cron.... 2018-11-06 10:42:02 cwd=/var/spool/exim 4 args: /usr/sbin/exim -odi -Mc 1gK0gE-0006VR-Qs 2018-11-06 10:42:02 1gK0gE-0006VR-Qs Sender identification U=root D=-system- S=root 2018-11-06 10:42:03 1gK0gE-0006VR-Qs ** root@myhostname R=fail_remote_domains: The mail server could not deliver mail to root@myhostname. The account or domain may not exist, they may be blacklisted, or missing the proper dns entries. 2018-11-06 10:42:03 cwd=/var/spool/exim 8 args: /usr/sbin/exim -odi -t -oem -oi -f <> -E1gK0gE-0006VR-Qs 2018-11-06 10:42:03 1gK0gF-0006VX-14 <= <> R=1gK0gE-0006VR-Qs U=mailnull P=local S=2172 T="Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender" for root@myhostname In Edit System Mail Preferences the Forward mail for "root" to is correct to my real email. Where is the problem? Thanks.

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  cPanelLauren

  • November 06, 2018 20:05

  Hi @Rogerio What's the mailto address set in the crontab? Either for the user or for root (if set for root)?

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  Rogerio

  • November 06, 2018 21:17

  Hello @cPanelLauren, it's the root's crontab "crontab -e" I need to set MAILTO=user@domain forcefully?

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  cPanelLauren

  • November 07, 2018 00:17

  Hi @Rogerio You'll need to set that mailto to whatever email address you want cron jobs to send mail to. I'm assuming at some point it got changed as the mailto= portion isn't usually filled out.

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  Rogerio

  • November 07, 2018 10:15

  Hello @cPanelLauren, yes, it was not set. In fact, I learned about this variable yesterday. Thanks

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