[PLUG] cron question

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Carlos Konstanski wrote:
> If you have a .forward file in the user's home directory, and it 
> contains a list of email addresses, cron will deliver to those instead 
> of (or perhaps in addition to?) the one in the MAILER environment 
> variable (which is set in /etc/crontab).  This is a handy way to get the 
> cron mail to multiple recipients.

But that's going to forward ALL of your local mail to those recipients. 
Better to just create a local mail alias for the list and set the mailto 
to the alias name.

J.