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mrworf / plexupdate

Plex Update script to simplify the life of Linux Plex Media Server users.
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No email notification after an update #283

Closed kevindd992002 closed 3 years ago

kevindd992002 commented 3 years ago

The script works fine in updating my PMS in Debian but I don't receive any email notifications? Why?

During install, I specified yes to this question:

Should cron send you an email if an update is available/installed?

demonbane commented 3 years ago

@kevindd992002 cron sends an email by using the MTA configured on your system, but a lot of desktop systems don't have one configured by default. If you want to set up a full blown MTA like exim/postfix/sendmail that's one option, but if you just want an easy way to get mail going for cron you can look at something like msmtp (apt-get install msmtp on Ubuntu) which will just relay mail to your mail provider (Gmail/Yahoo/etc).

kevindd992002 commented 3 years ago

That's what I thought. I'll look into it. Thanks.