Crontab Not Sending Email - nrcpts=0

[Derek Ragona]

At 01:34 PM 6/25/2008, Schiz0 wrote:
>Hey,
>
>I have another odd problem. Cron refuses to send any emails. Here's
>what DID work:
>
>-Sending email via /usr/bin/mail on command line
>-Having a crontab run a script which in turn sends an email
>-Piping the output of a crontab command into /usr/bin/mail. Such as
>having the following in a crontab:
>/bin/cat /home/user/todo_list | /usr/bin/mail staff at domain.tld
>
>But if I have this line in my crontab:
>25      0       *       *       1       /bin/cat /home/user/todo_list

Have you tried:
25      0       *       *       1       "/bin/cat /home/user/todo_list | 
/usr/bin/mail staff at domain.tld"

         -Derek



>No email is set to the owner of the crontab. I also tried defining
>$MAILTO in the crontab.
>"MAILTO=staff at domain.tld"
>
>When the crontab SHOULD be sending an email (But doesn't), I get the
>following error in my maillog:
>Jun 25 14:19:00 server1 sendmail[24291]: m5PIJ0sS024291: from=user,
>size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0,
>msgid=<200806251819.m5PIJ0sS024291 at server1.another.tld>,
>relay=user at localhost
>
>nrcpts=0 means that there are no recipients, afaik.
>
>Can anyone help me out? Thanks.
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