Submitted 12-Dec-00 by Chris Spencer:

> This really sucks because at the moment I have a fetchmail 
> job running every five minutes to get my mail from the local ISP mail server.

Why not run fetchmail as a daemon instead of from a cron job?

> How can I stop cron from sending email? Thanks...

Redirect all output from the job to /dev/null and cron won't have anything
to mail.  cron assumes that any output from the job is important and mails
it.

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