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# lists@natserv.com / 2005-07-01 11:30:16 -0400:
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> >There has been a similar case on the German FreeBSD-
> >question mailing list recently (i.e. cron refusing to
> >send mails, and the same error message from the MTA),
> >and it turned out to be the fault of the local LDAP
> >installation.
> 
> I am still trying to figure it out. What I find disconcerting is that it 
> seems the cron job fails because the email fails.

    What exactly does crond feed into the sendmail? You can quite easily
    find out by putting a suitable script in /etc/mail/mailer.conf.
    Something that writes "$@" and its STDIN in a file will do.

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