Hi Chris,
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 01:20:04PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com said:
On 12/30/2013 01:34 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:24:07 -0500 Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote: If you want logwatch or have cron jobs with output you wish, feel free to install a MTA and configure it.
been there done that. Looking to follow the flow of no MTA. See if it can be done.
Well, as it has been said, mailx is not an MTA, and it takes an MTA to transfer mail (even locally, because it crosses privilege boundaries). In the "old days", /bin/mail was setuid and could directly write /var/mail, but there were security issues with that and it is no longer supported (it also caused confusion when you actually had a local MTA configured to smart-host to a remote server).
If you want to handle mail in any fashion beyond using a client that sends/receives via network protocols (IMAP/POP3 and SMTP to a remote server, like mutt or Thunderbird), install an MTA. IIRC, at least Postfix and Sendmail will work for local mail handling (and not listening on the network) in a default install, so "yum install <your preferred MTA>" and you should be set.
I was under the same impression, hence my original thread:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-December/443441.html
However I was told (by Frank) that it is possible using mailx.
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-December/444265.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-December/444304.html
So now I'm completely lost as to what is possible and what is not. For now I have sendmail installed, but if possible I would like to remove that (at least on my laptop).
Hope that makes sense. And thanks for any explanations.
Cheers,