How to stop a cron job sending email

[Sambit Bikas Pal]

True, it is a bad idea indeed. But if someone doesn't want to get
mails from cron, no matter what is happening then what else can be
done...? :)

2008/10/31 Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>:
> On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 16:34 +0530, Sambit Bikas Pal wrote:
>> If you want to complete disable mails from cron, add the following at
>> the top of the crontab-
>> MAILTO=""
>
> In general, this is a Bad Idea.
>
> Turning off all emailed output from cron is a good way to never find out
> about stuff that is going wrong.
>
> Scripts run from cron should handle any expected output themselves. That
> will ensure that any unexpected output gets mailed to you.
>
> Redirecting output from scripts to /dev/null in the crontab itself is a
> Bad Idea for the same reason, but at least it can be applied on a
> script-by-script basis. Also, you can choose to only redirect stdout, so
> that unexpected output on stderr will still be mailed to you.
>



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