Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

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On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 22:22 +0100, Arthur Dent wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have read this page:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NoDefaultSendmail
> 
> Having upgraded to F20 the new lack of an MTA caused me no end of
> trouble with my fetchmail->procmail->dovecot setup, but I think I have
> got that sorted now. I had a brief flirtation with postfix, but gave
> that up as a bad job when it started bouncing all my mail.
> 
> In truth I am quite happy not to have an MTA and risk accidentally
> spamming the interweb, but I now find I am lacking one thing...
> 
> My system mail (and output from my user cron jobs) used to find it's way
> into procmail from which I could direct it into mailboxes to be read at
> my leisure.
> 
> Without a functioning MTA how can I now achieve the same result?
> Although I can ssh into the box, and I do often check logs etc, it is
> reassuring to know when something has happened I would get an email, and
> the regular output in email-form from logwatch was something I would
> check every day.
> 
> Can I get this functionality back without the pain of configuring
> postfix or (shudder) sendmail? If so how?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Gentle bump...

Does everyone here now do without email alerts, or does everyone just
install postfix or some such?

I would really like to know if there is a workaround for me...

Thanks again

Mark

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