On 01/03/2014 12:06 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
Ignore the previous cron messages. It seems that the mail is going
into
space because sendmail is not respecting the .forward in my home directory.
/home/sdstern/.forward contains
\root(a)sterndata.com
which is a valid, external email account
but mail sent to "sdstern" goes to "sdstern(a)sterndata.com", which is
another valid external email account. I found all my missing cron mail
there.
$ ll .forward
-rw-------. 1 sdstern sdstern 21 Jan 3 10:51 .forward
Apparently, this has been going on since December 13.
Somewhere I encountered that .forward was deprecated even back in f17,
and I had to stop using it and rely on editing /etc/aliases and running
newaliases.