Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1194 mails)

[Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Carlos,

Thank you. Just finished our New Year's Eve party, so off to bed. Brain has 
gone offline ;) I'll be back tomorrow. :) 

See below...

On Thursday 31 Dec 2009 20:41:43 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2009-12-31 18:55, Bob Williams wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 Dec 2009 15:21:16 Bob Williams wrote:
> >
> > Ouch! Now I'm getting a test message from cron once a minute. My inbox is
> > overflowing! :(  I'm sure this didn't happen on previous installations,
> > when I've opted to receive system mail. I can't find anything in the
> > postfix main.cf file to help me adjust this behaviour.
>
> No, the adjustement has to be in cron. Or rather the precise job that
>  generates those emails. Can you post a sample? If it is big, put it on
>  pastebin.
Return-Path: <root@xxxxxxxxxxx>
 X-Original-To: root
 Delivered-To: root@xxxxxxxxxxx
 Received: by linux.local (Postfix, from userid 0)
         id E8F035EF8A; Fri,  1 Jan 2010 02:09:01 +0000 (GMT)
 From: root@xxxxxxxxxxx
 To: root@xxxxxxxxxxx
 Subject: Cron <root@barrowhillfarm> echo test
 X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
 X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
 X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
 X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
 X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
 Message-Id: <20100101020901.E8F035EF8A@xxxxxxxxxxx>
 Date: Fri,  1 Jan 2010 02:09:01 +0000 (GMT)
 Status: R
 X-Status: N
 X-KMail-EncryptionState: 
 X-KMail-SignatureState: 
 X-KMail-MDN-Sent: 
 
test

> > As a matter of interest, when I tick the box to receive system mail at
> > installation time, which parameter in which file actually gets changed?
>
> /etc/aliases
Thank you.

Bob
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