Cron Not Sending Mail

[Glen Barber]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:10 PM, APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the tips. I've put the following line in my normal user
> account's crontab (This account does have a shell, it's one I use on a
> daily basis):
>
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> MAILTO=my_email_account at gmail.com
> *       *       *       *       *       /sbin/ping -c4 localhost
>
> I'm getting no emails at all. In /var/log/maillog, I'm getting the
> following output:
>
> Mar  3 21:10:00 domain sendmail[86797]: n23LA0td086797: from=www,
> size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0,
> msgid=<200903032110.n23LA0td086797 at subdomain.domain.tld>,
> relay=www at localhost
>

You've replaced a problem with another problem.  Have you tried to
send the mail locally first?

-- 
Glen Barber