mailx help

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/21/2014 12:19 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:47:03 -0800
> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>
>> So it seems mailx cannot work even locally without sendmail, unlike
>> what another poster here stated.
> Yes,
> I was able to (always testing stuff)
> Using claws mail at the time.
>
> The easiest and simplest option is "MTA"
> But that does not disqualify mailx being used.
>
> iirc in reply to Survayi (sp?)
> The dead.letter is plain text which can be
> read by my claws-mail as numbered plaintext.

I tried 'mutt -f dead.letter' and mutt said that dead.letter was note a 
mailbox.

>
> ----------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> ##
> DEAD="/root/dead.letter"
> LOCAL="/home/frank/Mail/inbox/Local"
>
> number=1
> while [ -f "$LOCAL"/$number ]; do
>   (( number++ ))
> done
>
> mv "$DEAD" "$LOCAL"/$number
> chown -R frank:mail /home/frank/Mail/inbox/Local/*