I was wondering if some one could explain to me why I am not getting any mail from my cron jobs.

In my /etc/crontab I have the MAILTO=root, and I have merged pine. However, nothing ever shows up. Do I need some other package to actually send the messages to root, or is there more configuration I need to do?

I was reading over my /var/log/crond/current, and this is the error I get

May 12 11:23:00 [CRON] (root) CMD ( /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly/test/sh)
May 12 11:23:00 [CRON] (root) MAIL(mailed 5 bytes of output but got status 0xffffffff)

does your MTA show any errors? What MTA are you using? Can you send mail to root with the command

/usr/lib/sendmail -v root < /etc/motd

or

cat /etc/motd | mail root

Linux_in_NH
I have the same prob and ran your segestions with this result
sendmail: warning: valid_hostname: numeric hostname: 192.168.254.254
sendmail: warning: valid_hostname: numeric hostname: 192.168.254.254
sendmail: warning: valid_hostname: numeric hostname: 168.254.254
postdrop: warning: valid_hostname: numeric hostname: 192.168.254.254
postdrop: warning: valid_hostname: numeric hostname: 192.168.254.254
postdrop: warning: valid_hostname: numeric hostname: 168.254.254
postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
Mail Delivery Status Report will be mailed to <root>.

Ideas?
Alvin

I know this Thread is old,
but i found it because i´ve had the same Problem:
cronjobs didn´t work and i can´t send mails to root.
I´m working with Mandrake 10, so you see this is an actual Problem too ;-)
But in Mandrake i found a way to correct it.
Take a look at /etc/postfix/main.cf
is there a option:
mydomain=...
since i create it my mail is working.


Chiao cediban

Hay thanks. I'm running 10 to. I assume you put localhost but the next line reads

relayhost = smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com

should that be localhost too?
Gratefully
Alvin