A pleasant cron surprise

["Igor S. Livshits" <igorl@uiuc.edu>]

Hello,

Well, I left my hamm system half set up when other things distracted me. I
had cron running, but no functional MTA fully installed.

I was thus plesantly surprised that cron actually managed to get an email
message to me once it executed a scheduled command for me. Question is:
Does cron know how to deal with MX records or did it just invoke my
half-installed sendmail 8.9 and it found a backup mail server for my box?

Just curious...

Thanks, igor



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