email tail output

[Umarzuki Mochlis <umarzuki@gmail.com>]

hi,

a newbie question:

from what i heard that mail command does not need to have mail service
running, right?

so i tried below command from my laptop just to check if i can put
similar command in crontab later then i wouldn't have to log in to a
server just to check if a process failed

$ tail /var/mail/user | mail -s "system mail on `date +%F`" user@domain.com

but the email does not arrive at user@domain.com. Is there any
possibility that the mail could be blocked because i could not find it
in mailq?

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Regards,

Umarzuki Mochlis
http://debmal.my