How to stop crond from sending email for all users?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to stop crond from sending emails for all the users
# cat /etc/crontab 
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root

# For details see man 4 crontabs

# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  * user-name  command to be executed

  • MAILTO="" option in /etc/crontab doesn't work for all the users to stop sending emails.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • crond daemon

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