Oops

When I quickly configured sendmail to forward my email from my aber account to my Gmail account it would seem that vixie-cron started emailing out the results of the cron job that was being run every 2 minutes. Because sendmail was configured as being on the domain "aber.ac.uk" it was simply appending the username "root" and mailing it to "matt". So in effect is was emailing matt@aber.ac.uk and claiming to be root@aber.ac.uk. D'oh.

No wonder they emailed me, really... The cron runs every 2 minutes. Sendmail has been configured for 3 days and 7 hours, or there abouts. That works out at roughly 2370 emails. Because matt@aber.ac.uk isn't a valid email address the emails were bouncing and going back to the sender: Supposedly root@aber.ac.uk and so in essence my computer has sent root@aber 2370 emails over the last few days. Hmm. How better to get yourself noticed, eh?