Hi, thanks a lot for your help, especially for finding where the cronjob was located.
I looked for where to setup email on https://docs.nextcloudpi.com/, but unfortunately the whole page disappears as soon as you type 3 letters into the search box. This probably deserves its own thread, but details are hidden
Documentation with 2 letters typed in search bar
Documentation website with 3 letters typed in search bar (mostly blank screen)
I do want to continue to get updates from freeDNS, but hopefully only when things go wrong, not every time. Currently it interrupts me if I’m typing at the terminal with “You have new mail in /var/mail/root” when I’m in the middle of a keystroke.
I found a reference for the WebUI configuration, and some of the other plugins like fail2ban support adding a personal email address for updates, but no global option, and no option in the freeDNS section.
I ended up editing /usr/local/bin/freeDNS.sh and commenting out every line that started with “echo” as a start. There is probably a better way to do this.