Public bug reported:

I just did a fresh install of trusty and deliberately made a failing
entry in the crontab:

* * * * * mkdir /qwer/qwer

In /var/syslog, this results in:


May  4 16:04:01 dekker CRON[2395]: (root) CMD (mkdir /qwer/qwer)
May  4 16:04:01 dekker CRON[2394]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding 
output)

When I look in the documentation (https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04
/installation-guide/amd64/ch08s05.html), it says:

   For this reason the packages exim4 and mutt will be installed by
   default (provided you did not unselect the “standard” task during
   the installation). exim4 is a combination MTA/MDA that is relatively
   small but very flexible. By default it will be configured to only
   handle e-mail local to the system itself and e-mails addressed to
   the system administrator (root account) will be delivered to the
   regular user account created during the installation.

Still, mutt and exim4 appear not to be installed, although I did not
exclude or remove any packages.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: cron 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Mon May  5 09:52:04 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-26 (39 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20140325.1)
SourcePackage: cron
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: cron (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty

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