From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 30 15:21:18 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2EA01065678 for ; Sun, 30 May 2010 15:21:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gandalf@shopzeus.com) Received: from fep11.mx.upcmail.net (fep11.mx.upcmail.net [62.179.121.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D7F8FC13 for ; Sun, 30 May 2010 15:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from edge05.upcmail.net ([192.168.13.212]) by viefep11-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.8.01.02.02 201-2260-120-106-20100312) with ESMTP id <20100530152115.KHTH4509.viefep11-int.chello.at@edge05.upcmail.net>; Sun, 30 May 2010 17:21:15 +0200 Received: from [192.168.0.101] ([89.132.77.46]) by edge05.upcmail.net with edge id PrMD1e01e0zwShV05rMER8; Sun, 30 May 2010 17:21:15 +0200 X-SourceIP: 89.132.77.46 Message-ID: <4C028270.5030900@shopzeus.com> Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 17:21:20 +0200 From: Laszlo Nagy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; hu; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Fechner , questions@freebsd.org References: <4BFFAC35.2040503@shopzeus.com> <4BFFDCC4.5080408@fechner.net> <4C00099D.6070005@shopzeus.com> In-Reply-To: <4C00099D.6070005@shopzeus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=jiVRHdtUHQAy7bptafywayBW+6flB1IkYOkYMoG72+w= c=1 sm=0 a=wbKXeunVgZ0A:10 a=-CRmgG0JhlAA:10 a=DBbz17L6xUFkf39BSfMA:9 a=dUPVJ8bTDxgKwV5dkLAA:7 a=-jdV0FP6mB8z0ZiSDRZ-i5STA-QA:4 a=jiObf9B0YAUA:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Cc: Subject: Re: cron not sending emails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 15:21:19 -0000 If I put this into root's crontab >>> >>> * * * * * echo "TEST" >> >> a quick guess, you have a line like: >> MAILTO="address" >> > It doesn't work. With, or without the MAILTO. Just for completeness, > I have used this: > > MAILTO=gandalf > > The "gandalf" user is a local user on the system. I can send local > mail to this user using the "sendmail" postfix program (checked twice). Cron is still not sending emails. Any idea? Thanks Laszlo