From old message:
On 12/30/2013 06:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
First of all, let me reiterate one thing. "sendmail" does not do local delivery by itself. It relies on another program to do this. In the default configuration (sendmail.mc) on Fedora it is defined to use procmail for local delivery.
Now, if you (pl) would do a bit of man page reading you'd find in "man crond"....
-m This option allows you to specify a shell command to use for
sending Cron mail output instead of using sendmail(8) This com‐
mand must accept a fully formatted mail message (with headers) on
standard input and send it as a mail message to the recipients
specified in the mail headers. Specifying the string off (i.e.,
crond -m off) will disable the sending of mail.
So, you can edit /etc/sysconfig/crond to contain....
CRONDARGS=-m/bin/procmail
systemctl restart crond.service
Now, the only "problem" is that procmail cannot initially create files in /var/mail. So, to get this to work you'll need to do, as root....
touch /var/mail/username
chown username:mail /var/mail/username
I know this works with procmail but not sure about mailx. You can certainly test....
So, you don't need sendmail. procmail will do just fine.
So I installed procmail, and did the test:
cat d1.letter |procmail
and sure enough I got:
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/rgm
Great. I could view the mail with cat. So I ran mutt, and mutt
complained that /var/spool/mail/rgm is not a mailbox.
So what is missing? What is mutt saying was not done in constructing
/var/spool/mail/rgm?
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