[Bug 1641671] Re: Cronjob /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common sends too many e-mail messages

[Juancho]

Still see it on 17.10.

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Title:
  Cronjob /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common sends too many e-mail
  messages

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Confirmed
Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in update-notifier source package in Bionic:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm getting this over and over and over in email:

  Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on [hostname]

  /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...

  That's the whole message.

  Please make it stop. ;-)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-47.68-generic 4.4.24
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-47-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Mon Nov 14 12:04:53 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-16 (303 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-28 (200 days ago)

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