<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 12:32 PM Jonathan Meek via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello folks,<div><br></div><div>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:</div><div><br></div><div>- Backup script runs</div><div>-if it fails, script sends mail to a local mailbox</div><div>-I check the local mailbox and see the failed message</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance,</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan</div>
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