On 2020-05-11 15:34, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 11May2020 11:51, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Just want to make sure you saw my response to your original post Subject: user crontab? >> >> The MTA has to be running in order for mail from cron to be processed. > > Robert doesn't want to put an MTA in. It looks like the cron -m argument lets you specify the command used to dispatch email, normally sendmail. However, by using procmail he doesn't need an MTA because he's having procmail do delivery directly. In that circumstance you don't need an MTA and therefore, you don't need a running MTA. > > Personally I'm having trouble finding the doco for the -m option, and also don't know where he's putting this setting. The setting goes in /etc/sysconfig/crond. >From the crond man page.... -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. I don't understand what is gained by not installing postfix and letting it only listen, by default, on "localhost" and use the standard methods for getting mail from cron. I'm also confused by the need to create headers before feeding anything to procmail since cron generate a fully formatted mail message as noted in the -m option. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
