Postfix: Mysterious undelivered message to root

[Hans Lambermont]

Clint Olsen wrote:

> On Jan 14, Vivek Khera wrote:
>> did you activate postfix in your /etc/mail/mailer.conf file?
> 
> Yes, my mailer.conf file looks like:
> sendmail        /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> send-mail       /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> mailq           /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> newaliases      /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> hoststat        /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> purgestat       /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
>
>> perhaps
>> something is improperly submitting email.  a likely candidate is your
>> nightly system admin script.
> 
> It's definitely something like an admin thing as you described.  I get it
> at right around 3am every day.  I do have two cron jobs running that cvsups
> ports and releases at 2 and 2:30am but I'm getting normal output from those
> jobs submissions as it is.

I think one of these in /etc/periodic.conf fixes your problem :

daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO"
daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO"
daily_submit_queuerun="NO"

(I also have these related ones in there:
daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO"
daily_status_mailq_enable="YES"
daily_queuerun_enable="YES"
)

Succes,
  Hans Lambermont
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