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<p>
Several Mailman features occur on a regular schedule, so you must set up
<b class="program">cron</b> to run the right programs at the right time<a name="tex2html6"
- href="#foot551"><sup>6</sup></a>.
+ href="#foot556"><sup>6</sup></a>.
<p>
If your version of crontab supports the <b class="programopt">-u</b> option, you must be
@@ -80,9 +80,37 @@ crontab does not support the <b class="programopt">-u</b> option, try these comm
</pre></div>
<p>
+<div class="warning"><b class="label">Warning:</b>
+
+If you accepted the defaults for the <b class="programopt">--with-username</b> option
+and for the name of the site list, and one of the cron jobs ever encounters an
+error, the cron daemon will mail the error output to the 'mailman' user and
+it will most likely be delivered to the 'mailman' site list and possibly not
+be accepted. For this reason it is a good idea to insert
+
+<p>
+<div class="verbatim"><pre>
+ MAILTO=user@example.com
+</pre></div>
+
+<p>
+or
+
+<p>
+<div class="verbatim"><pre>
+ MAILTO=mailman-owner
+</pre></div>
+
+<p>
+at the beginning of crontab.in before installing it to cause this output to
+be mailed to a real user or to the owner of the site list or to configure
+the site list (see section <a href="site-list.html#site-list">8</a>) to accept this mail.
+</div>
+
+<p>
<br><hr><h4>Footnotes</h4>
<dl>
-<dt><a name="foot551">... time</a><A
+<dt><a name="foot556">... time</a><A
HREF="node41.html#tex2html6"><sup>6</sup></a></dt>
<dd>Note that
if you're upgrading from a previous version of Mailman, you'll want to install
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-<span class="release-info">Release 2.1, documentation updated on January 11, 2009.</span>
+<span class="release-info">Release 2.1, documentation updated on December 14, 2009.</span>
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