Configure Local Mail on Ubuntu

Posted by Eric J. on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Eric J.
Published on 2010-05-11T17:12:35Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 17:14 UTC
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My cron jobs are trying to mail their results using the local mail feature of Ubuntu (not internet email, the kind of mail you can read with mutt). However, /var/log/syslog reports

/USR/SBIN/CRON[19212]: (speedtax) MAIL (mailed 52 bytes of output but got status 0x0006 )

I would like to setup local mail (so that cron can deliver the output successfully) but do not want to setup internet email. Everything I find on google is about the latter.

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