Problem with mail from Cron

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I am having a problem with system mail. I have a cron job to create scripted backups using rsync. I append the output of the various backup jobs to a text file, and then run the command ‘mail -s “Backups Confirmation” “rz33fv” </tmp/backuplist’ at the end of the script.

The problem is no mail is arriving. I have checked that the postfix daemon is running. There are no files at all in /var/mail. The most recent output in /var/log/mail.info is:

Nov 17 20:58:06 fujitsu postfix/pickup[9891]: 9797C3CFD2: uid=0 from=<root>
Nov 17 20:58:06 fujitsu postfix/cleanup[10936]: 9797C3CFD2: message-id=<20091117205806.9797C3CFD2@fujitsu.home.dev> Nov 17 20:58:06 fujitsu postfix/qmgr[9892]: 9797C3CFD2: from=<root@fujitsu.home.dev>, size=448, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Nov 17 20:58:06 fujitsu postfix/local[10939]: 9797C3CFD2: to=<rz33fv@localhost.home.dev>, orig_to=<rz33fv@localhost>, relay=local, delay=0.28, delays=0.22/0.01/0/0.06, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)

Which appears to me to suggest that it should have been delivered. The environment variable MAIL points to /var/spool/mail/rz33fv.
So I appear to have an entry in /var/log/mail.info that says the mail was delivered, the environment variable appears to point to a valid location, but there is nothing there. I’m sure I’m probably missing something blindingly obvious here, but right now I’m just confused. Has anyone any idea what might be happening?

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Hi
You need to edit the /etc/postfix/main.cf file and rem out the
following entry and restart postfix;

home_mailbox = Maildir/

See http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-11/msg01102.html

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Either that or tell your mail reader to use Maildir/ style mailboxes.

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Thanks guys

I’ll give it a go when I get home later.

Much appreciated.