since F20 update, cron has stopped sending mail

[Suvayu Ali]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 09:13:37AM -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> With F19, I got email from cron on all jobs that produced output.  I no
> longer get those mails after upgrading to F20. I have verified that the
> jobs are run.  There are no entries in /var/log/maillog for them.  Other
> system tasks, not run through cron, send their emails as usual.
> 
> crontab has a "Mail to" line in it:
> 
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root
> 
> Any idea what I need to do to get my cron email restored?

# yum install sendmail # or any other MTA of your choice

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