[wplug] cyrus-imapd / postfix / ???

Chester R. Hosey Chester.Hosey at gianteagle.com
Fri Aug 19 10:58:55 EDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 10:35 -0400, ian wrote:
> You lost me at the headlight...
> 
> I just want Cron to stop emailing me every 20 minutes...
> 
> I'm not sure how to make Cron stop emailing me, and I'd appreciate any suggestions as to how I might go about fixing it.
> Unless by stopping these emails, I would break something else...

What I'm suggesting is that you stop worrying about the emails you're
getting, and start worrying about the condition that's causing the
messages to be sent.

You can stop the emails without breaking anything additional. It's very
likely that something is broken that you're ignoring, but you can stop
receiving the emails without breaking anything else.

If you'd like to stop receiving them without fixing the actual problem,
install "procmail", and create a file called .procmailrc in your home
directory with the following contents (cut and paste them, or be sure to
type a zero on the first line, not a capital letter 'O'):

:0
* ^From: Cron Daemon.*
/dev/null

You should stop receiving the emails.

I've found that every time I try to ignore an actual error condition
because it _seems_ to be working it comes back to haunt me later. Please
feel free to ask for help fixing the actual problem if you'd like to
try, but additional details would definitely help.

Chet


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