mailx help

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Tue Jan 21 06:16:19 UTC 2014


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 at 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




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