mailx help

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/21/2014 08:01 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> On 01/21/2014 06:48 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 06:32:01 -0800
>> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I kind of thought it was in the code, as I went through all the
>>> config files and could not find anything beyond the change I had
>>> already made to /etc/sysconfig/crond
>>>
>>> CRONDARGS=-m "/usr/bin/mailx -t"
>> At the moment cronie seem to disregard this.
>> but a dirty "ln -s /usr/bin/mailx /usr/sbin/sendmail"
>> should stop crond.service complaining.
>
> Ok.  I tried this, and mailx is no longer complaining.  But no mail in 
> /var/spool/mail/rgm and no dead.letter.  Mail is now dropping into the 
> abyss, it seems.  So this is not an answer.

Oh, neat.  I deleted the symbolic link because it was 'not doing 
anything', and then:

/usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
"/home/rgm/dead.letter" 89112/2278516
. . . message not sent.

So I was right that it was looping indefinitely as you can see by part 
of the beginning of dead.letter:

Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:01:35 -0800
To: rgm
User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:01:35 -0800
To: rgm
User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:01:35 -0800
To: rgm
User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

So on to procmail!