Missing Cron Email When Restarting smtpd

I have a cron job that renews an SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt, and then restarts the smtpd daemon so that the new certificate is picked up. This all works fine--as proven by both the presence of a new, valid cert on disk, and smtpd successfully restarting--but cron never sends an email with the output of the job. What gives?

https://www.packetmischief.ca/2021/02/03/missing-cron-email-when-restarting-smtpd/

#cron #mail #opensmtpd

OpenSMTPD on the Local Network.

One of the many great things about OpenBSD is that it comes with OpenSMTPD by default, allowing my servers to communicate with themselves and each other via the SMTP protocol. This is used to send insecurity reports, failed cron jobs, et cetera to various users on the system. However, I don’t want to have to check each machine’s mail spool to see if there are any messages I need to act upon. I’d much rather have a central mail server to collect all these messages so that I have a single place to check...

https://josephchoe.com/2021/12/24/opensmtpd

#opensmtpd #mail

Mail Server Hosting on OpenBSD.

Mail server is an everyday requirement for everyone. Why trust and rely on 3rd party mail servers? There are many reasons to host your mail server today, in just one sitting! The following section mentions the significant benefits of hosting a mail server...

https://serhanekici.com/005-mailserver-openbsd.html

#opensmtpd #mail

Excision Mail.

Fullstack, security focused mailserver based on OpenSMTPD for OpenBSD.

https://excision.bsd.ac/

#opensmtpd #mail