On 01/20/2014 10:47 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
thanks Ed, making some headway, see below:
On 01/20/2014 10:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 01/21/14 14:16, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
using mailx to supposedly mail to myself with no sendmail. cron is failing in the mailing and the message ends in dead.letter.
So I mved dead.letter to d1.letter and tried: "mailx -t -q d1.letter" (and had to issue a cntl-D) and got:
No recipients specified "/home/rgm/dead.letter" 41/879
Here is the content of d1.letter. Note that there is a 'To:' line but it seems mailx does not like it?
From: "(Cron Daemon)" <rgm> To: rgm Subject: Cron rgm@lx120e rsync -tvz ftp.rfc-editor.org::rfcs/*.txt /home/common/ietf/rfcs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
skipping non-regular file "rfc-ref.txt" RFCs_for_errata.txt bcp-index.txt fyi-index.txt ien-index.txt rfc-index-latest.txt rfc-index.txt rfc6940.txt rfc7048.txt rfc7078.txt rfc7086.txt rfc7094.txt rfc7095.txt rfc7096.txt rfc7097.txt rfc7098.txt rfc7103.txt rfc7105.txt rfc7108.txt rfc7111.txt rfc7115.txt rfcxx00.txt std-index.txt
sent 11,194 bytes received 399,421 bytes 74,657.27 bytes/sec total size is 365,871,233 speedup is 891.03
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The 'To:' comes from my line in /var/spool/cron/rgm
MAILTO=rgm
Not really an answer.... But, I found that
cat d1.letter | mailx -t
Will result in the mail being delivered.
Well you must have sendmail or equiv installed:
cat d1.letter |mailx -t Ignoring header field "MIME-Version: 1.0" Ignoring header field "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii" Ignoring header field "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit" /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory "/home/rgm/dead.letter" 37/741 . . . message not sent.
So it seems mailx cannot work even locally without sendmail, unlike what another poster here stated.
procmail was suggested by another poster here that works for local delivery without sendmail. I may end up having to install it.
Searching through old messages shows that Ed recommended using procmail back on 12/30/13.