mailx help

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/21/2014 06:48 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 06:27:50 -0800
> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> ad by my claws-mail as numbered plaintext.
>> I tried 'mutt -f dead.letter' and mutt said that dead.letter was note
>> a mailbox.
>>
> mailx will keep appending to dead.letter and it can grow massive,
> I have tested it as far as 8.34GB
>
> So being able to move it to something tidier is nice.

But mutt does not seem to want to read dead.letter.  So what good is 
moving it?  If you can get mutt to read it directly, let me know how you 
did it.

> MTA is easiest, but part of the whole draw of linux for me is,
> "How far can I push this."

For me it is "How much can I stay within the box".  So I am trying to 
live without an MTA on a client, but still use cron, an important client 
service.