mailx help

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/21/14 22:34, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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> Something is complaining.  I do have:
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> CRONDARGS=-m "/usr/bin/mailx -t"
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> But we see from the test of trying to use the dead.letter file that mailx itself is using sendmail.  So you fix one problem and cause another.

I think it is pretty much established that all of these utilities were expecting a real MTA to be installed and running on systems.  I don't think we'd be having his discussion if it wasn't decided that installing "sendmail" would be optional.

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>> But, in my limited testing, using procmail would not require sendmail.
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> And I am staying away, so far, from installing an MTA to figure out what would work.
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FWIW, having an MTA running but doing nothing other than delivering mail for cron and other system utils doesn't utilize system resources.  Getting around installing an MTA may be more trouble than it is worth.

That being said, I do feel using procmail instead of mailx is probably a viable alternative.

Of course, it isn't easy to devise a solution to a problem which hasn't been defined.   :-)

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