[illumos-Developer] webrev: 374 cron should send more useful mail

[Gordon Ross]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Joshua M. Clulow <josh at sysmgr.org> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>>  https://illumos.org/issues/374
>>  http://cr.illumos.org/view/dwgyf8j8/webrev-374-cron-subject/
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Overall, I like the start of the idea. And the code looks OK.
>
> However, a couple of things occur to me:
>
> 1. I know that many of my users have email rules set to match the
> existing string in the subject, so this would be seen as an incompatible
> change. (Although personally I would rather they fix their cron jobs so
> they didn't need to redirect all the output straight into the junk folder.)

Does cron set the "Sender" field in a useful way?
Or is there some other field that could reliably be used
to filter any/all messages from cron jobs?
If not, we could add one...

Gordon