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[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/21/2014 06:00 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:54:10 +0800
> Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> mail's queue.
>> But, in my limited testing, using procmail would not require
>> sendmail.
>>
> No, it's inbuilt into cronie,
> if /usr/bin/sendmail is not there cron mails fails.
>
> man crond:
> The syslog output will be used instead of mail,
> when sendmail is not installed
>
> If you able to yum erase "mta"
> then
> systemctl restart crond.service
>
> It's doable,, if only I wrote down this stuff when doing it.

I think I have an alternative, but I can't code.  A simple perl script 
that takes the output of the cron job and prepends it to the mail file.  
See follow-on stand alone message for a rough spec.