Hi all, I've got a cron event running every minute to have smail check mail on our Exchange server. The line that runs the event is:

/opt/otrs/bin/./PostMasterPOP3.pl

This produces the following mail message:

From root@foo.com Tue Jan 27 10:26:02 2004
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:26:02 +0100 (CET)
From: root@foo.com (Cron Daemon)
To: root@foo.com
Subject: Cron <root@foo> /opt/otrs/bin/./PostMasterPOP3.pl
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>

No messages (domain_name\otrs/foo@172.25.25.25)
Connection to 172.25.25.25 closed.

The problem is that every time the command runs, it produces a mail message, leaving me with 8500 emails after a four day weekend, and I usually just delete them from smail manually:

"/var/mail/root": 8616 messages 12 new 8616 unread
>N8605 root@foo.com Mon Feb 2 09:45 20/605 Cron <root@foo> /opt/
N8606 root@foo.com Mon Feb 2 09:46 20/605 Cron <root@foo>

Is there a switch I can add to the end of the command to suppress the emails from being generated?

Thanks,
Jason

Putting MAILTO="" at the top of the crontab normally suppresses output. But may be you don't want that. It's probably better just to redirect output to dev/null thus:

/opt/otrs/bin/./PostMasterPOP3.pl > /dev/null

Redirecting output > /dev/null works fine, thanks for your help!