Hi Chris, On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 01:20:04PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > On 12/30/2013 01:34 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > >On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:24:07 -0500 > > >Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >If you want logwatch or have cron jobs with output you wish, feel free > > >to install a MTA and configure it. > > been there done that. Looking to follow the flow of no MTA. See if > > it can be done. > > Well, as it has been said, mailx is not an MTA, and it takes an MTA to > transfer mail (even locally, because it crosses privilege boundaries). > In the "old days", /bin/mail was setuid and could directly write > /var/mail, but there were security issues with that and it is no longer > supported (it also caused confusion when you actually had a local MTA > configured to smart-host to a remote server). > > If you want to handle mail in any fashion beyond using a client that > sends/receives via network protocols (IMAP/POP3 and SMTP to a remote > server, like mutt or Thunderbird), install an MTA. IIRC, at least > Postfix and Sendmail will work for local mail handling (and not > listening on the network) in a default install, so "yum install <your > preferred MTA>" and you should be set. I was under the same impression, hence my original thread: <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-December/443441.html> However I was told (by Frank) that it is possible using mailx. <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-December/444265.html> <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-December/444304.html> So now I'm completely lost as to what is possible and what is not. For now I have sendmail installed, but if possible I would like to remove that (at least on my laptop). Hope that makes sense. And thanks for any explanations. Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
