mailx help

[Robert Moskowitz]

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 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
>>>
>>> =======================================
>>>
>>> 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.