cron not sending emails

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Sunday, May 30, 2010 a las 05:21:20PM +0200, Laszlo Nagy escribió:

> 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?

Yes, check the log of cron (/var/log/cron) if you job is run at all; if
so check the log of mails (/var/log/maillog).

Btw: what is the purpose of putting TEST into ""?

	matthias
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