On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 02:28:38PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: > On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 12:43 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:54:18AM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: > > > > > > Can anybody help me achieve what I want - either avoid the need for an > > > MTA altogether, or configure a simple MTA to process internal mail > > > internally? > > > > If you are not sending emails over the internet, no configuration is > > required. Just install an MTA like sendmail/postfix/exim and turn on > > the service with default configurations. That should take care of all > > intenal mail. > > > > I read system mail with mutt; my only setup is the following line in > > /etc/aliases: > > > > root: <myusername> > > > > Hope this helps, > > That is fantastically helpful - thank you! > > This means that I get get system mail for root (my main concern) but it > doesn't seen to give me cron output for jobs run as my normal user. > > Can I achieve something similar for that? If so how? That requires nothing at all. All system mail will be delivered to /var/spool/mail/<username> without any configuration. -- 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
