Admin Email Notifications

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I am trying to get email notifications sent to the Admin group for my Nextcloud server.

I have test emails working. I am using Postfix.

I understand users can get personal emails set up like so by configuring which notifications they want to receive on their Personal pages.

But what about admins?

I have a cron job set up to run every 15 minuets as stated in the Nextcloud documentation. I do not receive emails however.

My understanding is that Nextcloud administrators are getting the results of the cronjob emailed to them.

How is this done?

Please and thank you! :slight_smile:

P.S. I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server VERSION=“7.3 (Maipo)”. Nextcloud v11.

2

Could be missing MX record for your domain in your DNS.

3

Sanook - as mentioned I am successfully getting test emails. Postfix works. I am not even seeing mail being sent in my maillog. (I would see failed email if it was being sent).

I have added MAILTO=myemail@address.com to the top of the crontab file. Still nothing.

Any ideas?

4

Did you threw an eye at the admin settings?

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So with the help of timsen in the IRC chat, I solved the issue. Sorry Sanook, you were not understanding the issue.

I created a cronjob using crontab -u apache -e

[root@NEXTCLOUD nextcloud]# crontab -u apache -l
MAILTO=email@address.com

*/15  *  *  *  * php -f /var/www/html/nextcloud/cron.php
0  */6  *  *  * /var/www/html/nextcloud/./script.sh

As you can see every 6 hours it executes script.sh

This script is composed of:

#/bin/bash
NOW=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M");
LOGFILE="log-$NOW.log";
{ sudo -u apache /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/nextcloud/occ user:list; sudo -u apache /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/nextcloud/occ user:report; sudo -u apache /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/nextcloud/occ files:scan --all; }>/var/www/html/nextcloud/nclogs/$LOGFILE; sed '/Scanning/,/+/d' /var/www/html/nextcloud/nclogs/$LOGFILE;

The output looks like the stuff below. As you can see the part with “Scanning…” is removed with sed.

  - user1: user1
  - user2: user2
  - user3: user3
+------------------+----+
| User Report      |    |
+------------------+----+
| Database         | 3 |
|                  |    |
| total users      | 3 |
|                  |    |
| user directories | 3 |
+------------------+----+

| Folders | Files | Elapsed time |
+---------+-------+--------------+
| 100     | 300   | 00:00:00     |
+---------+-------+--------------+