Hello Maintainer, I second this, since if you use ssmtp on the computer cron can not pull messages out of the system.
(I have already reported an equivalent thing for some month)
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
Am 2006-11-21 02:23:29, schrieb Steve Lane:
> Package: cron
> Version: 3.0pl1-99
> Followup-For: Bug #396928
>
>
> It would be A Good Thing to be able to change the (hard-coded)
> default "From: " address. This is currently set in do_command.c:
>
> 493: fprintf(mail, "From: root (Cron Daemon)
> ");
>
> At a minimum, it would be good to be able to make the address
> fully-qualified. Below is a patch that does this by default, but
> it would be nice to just set it (to whatever) in /etc/default/cron.
>
> (Note that having the non-fully-qualified hostname in the "Subject: "
> line is useful but not sufficient.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Steve Lane
> System, Network and Security Administrator
> Doudna Lab
> Biomolecular Structure and Mechanism Group
> UC Berkeley
>
>
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