crontab does not send email notices to /var/mailuser ?

[1885]

We are running an array of crontab processes in an experimatal lab (school)

I do not understand why we are not getting email notifications when a crontab's errors or are successful.

I have a redhat server running and by default I get a notification when a crontab is processed at /var/mail/username

How do I enable this on our debian9 boxes?

Example out on Redhat box:

Code: Select all

Message-Id: <20180508141503.73205C0003A8C@t********.org>
Date: Tue,  8 May 2018 07:15:03 -0700 (PDT)

>From https://github.com/t****/********
   091ea56..947efc5  master     -> origin/master
Updating 091ea56..947efc5
Fast-forward
 documentation/linux/command-line/pingsweep-arp.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 documentation/linux/command-line/pingsweep-arp.txt

[cronoik]

Can you please post your crontab?

[Dai_trying]

I use postfix for this and set it up to be local only, this way I receive local mail when cron returns output. Of course if you already have mail transport set up it could be a different problem.