thanks Ed, making some headway, see below:
On 01/20/2014 10:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 01/21/14 14:16, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
using mailx to supposedly mail to myself with no sendmail. cron is failing in the mailing and the message ends in dead.letter.
So I mved dead.letter to d1.letter and tried: "mailx -t -q d1.letter" (and had to issue a cntl-D) and got:
No recipients specified
"/home/rgm/dead.letter" 41/879
Here is the content of d1.letter. Note that there is a 'To:' line but it seems mailx does not like it?
From: "(Cron Daemon)" <rgm>
To: rgm
Subject: Cron <rgm@lx120e> rsync -tvz ftp.rfc-editor.org::rfcs/*.txt /home/common/ietf/rfcs
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
skipping non-regular file "rfc-ref.txt"
RFCs_for_errata.txt
bcp-index.txt
fyi-index.txt
ien-index.txt
rfc-index-latest.txt
rfc-index.txt
rfc6940.txt
rfc7048.txt
rfc7078.txt
rfc7086.txt
rfc7094.txt
rfc7095.txt
rfc7096.txt
rfc7097.txt
rfc7098.txt
rfc7103.txt
rfc7105.txt
rfc7108.txt
rfc7111.txt
rfc7115.txt
rfcxx00.txt
std-index.txt
sent 11,194 bytes received 399,421 bytes 74,657.27 bytes/sec
total size is 365,871,233 speedup is 891.03
=======================================
The 'To:' comes from my line in /var/spool/cron/rgm
MAILTO=rgm
Not really an answer.... But, I found that
cat d1.letter | mailx -t
Will result in the mail being delivered.
Well you must have sendmail or equiv installed:
cat d1.letter |mailx -t
Ignoring header field "MIME-Version: 1.0"
Ignoring header field "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii"
Ignoring header field "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit"
/usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
"/home/rgm/dead.letter" 37/741
. . . message not sent.
So it seems mailx cannot work even locally without sendmail, unlike what
another poster here stated.
procmail was suggested by another poster here that works for local
delivery without sendmail. I may end up having to install it.
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