* Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:12:14PM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > I want mutt to move some mails from one archive folder to another > > (compressed) one. Since this lasts some time on my old computer, I > > want to do it via a cron job. Setting up a muttrc to do it, is no > > problem, but cron mails me the output of mutt which is a bit strange, > > because it's not appropriate for being mailed. Is there any way (some > > sort of batch mode) to retrict mutt's output to error messages and > > similar things? Or how do you think I should do it? > > > Cron will mail the standard output and error to you by default. > Try appending the following to the end of the cron command: > > 2>&1 >/dev/null Another alternative would be setting the MAILTO variable in your crontab
MAILTO=/dev/null Although every job after that line will not have mail sent. > > Mmm..you should only then get errors mailed to you. I usually allow errors so I'm alerted of failed jobs,. > Or possibly an empty email. > There is more than 1 version of cron in the wild, > some have other possibilities. > > -- > Regards > Cliff > > Curt -- Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
