> Agreed. Cron and anacron both need a mailer to inform you of errors and > various packages install cron jobs implicitly. > > However, isn't there a local-only mailer that respects /etc/aliases and is > lighter-weight than exim4? what i do on my computers is putting QUEUERUNNER='nodaemon' in /etc/default/exim4 this way no exim daemon is started at all, but i still can get my mails from anacron. Bye