On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 08:03:55PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 20:25 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> 
> > > [mark@Zaphod]$ send-mail: account default not found: no configuration 
> > > file available
> > 
> > It looks like this is the crux of your problem.  I presume you checked
> > mary gets mails for her cron jobs?
> 
> Well I think we're narrowing down the problem here. The answer to that
> question is NO!
> And interestingly NEITHER DOES ROOT!

This is strange.

> 
> It seems that fixing /etc/aliases now allows me to get SYSTEM messages
> (e.g. logwatch, fail2ban stops/starts etc.) but NOT cron output.
> 
> So the problem seems to be that cron is somehow not configured to send
> mail. Could that be right? If so, where do I start in trying to fix
> it?   

I find this very surprising.  Can you try adding a line like this on top
of your crontab:

  MAILTO=<username>

> > That said, I do not know enough about system mail to point you to
> > possible sources of your problem, however I would start by running mail
> > with the verbose flag.
> 
> How do I do that?

Just call mail with -v in your test:

  $ mail -v mary

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

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