I have a script which runs on my FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE box via cron every evening at 10pm. It carries out an rsync of my files and emails me the result. For years it's been running perfectly... until recently! The line in the script looks something like:
echo "backup completed OK" | /usr/bin/mail -s "Backup result" me@mycompany.co.uk
I'm in the UK and have Virgin fibre broadband. I suspect it's related to Virgin blocking something that they used to allow, but I'm not sure what. Perhaps Virgin have stopped allowing relay of email and I now need to authenticate, but I don't see any support for that in the /usr/bin/mail man page.
If anyone can shed any light, or offer a simple solution, I'd be mighty grateful.
echo "backup completed OK" | /usr/bin/mail -s "Backup result" me@mycompany.co.uk
I'm in the UK and have Virgin fibre broadband. I suspect it's related to Virgin blocking something that they used to allow, but I'm not sure what. Perhaps Virgin have stopped allowing relay of email and I now need to authenticate, but I don't see any support for that in the /usr/bin/mail man page.
If anyone can shed any light, or offer a simple solution, I'd be mighty grateful.