On Fri, 2007-05-01 at 17:25 +0100, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > Cron requires a local delivery agent ... > > No, it needs a *submission* agent. The delivery agent is the program > which puts the mail in a mailbox.
ok > > > which may send to the SMTP port on a remote host, depending on the > > implementation (i'm not saying that I've seen this but unless you > > check the source of every implementation, you can't be sure what is > > generally true). > > Right. But the application (cron in this case) doesn't care. Well, cron may not "care" but if you replace /usr/sbin/sendmail on a Debian system running exim4 and then turn exim4 off you won't see any mail from cron. -- --gh
