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There is an issue with emails sent from the command line backup.php file and Joomla! 2.5.x due to changes in the way Joomla! 2.5 stores its version number and the way the CRON script works. Right now, I'd recommend turning that option off. You can have your CRON daemon email you with the results of the script's execution instead. This can be done by removing the redirection to null ("> dev/null") part of the CRON job's command line.

This issue will be fixed in the next version of Akeeba Backup by rewriting the CRON script. backup.php is currently created as an ad-hoc command line script which does not use the Joomla! API and tries to simulate a small part of it, enough to allow the backups to run outside of the context of a web server. This was necessary, as it has to be compatible with Joomla! 1.5 whose API did not really support command line scripts. This has changed since Joomla! 1.7. Joomla! is now based on top of the Joomla! Framework which explicitly supports CLI (command-line) applications. The new CRON scripts will be written in a way which uses this new framework. The reason this hasn't already been done is that I still needed to support Joomla! 1.5. Now that Joomla! 2.5 is the stable, long-term support release I will drop Joomla! 1.5 compatibility from my software's new versions which means I can use this new CLI support for a more stable backup.php script :)

You're welcome!