procmail testing

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/21/2014 03:33 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 01/22/14 07:27, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> The following seems to work:
>>
>> # cat /etc/sysconfig/crond
>> # Settings for the CRON daemon.
>> # CRONDARGS= :  any extra command-line startup arguments for crond
>> CRONDARGS=-m "/usr/bin/procmail -f cron"
>>
>> This produced a valid mailbox.  At least so far.  We will see what happens tonight after a couple cron jobs...
>>
>>  From cron  Tue Jan 21 15:21:04 2014
>> From: "(Cron Daemon)" <rgm>
>> To: rgm
>> Subject: Cron <rgm at lx120e> rsync -tvz ftp.rfc-editor.org::rfcs/*.txt /home/commo
>> n/ietf/rfcs
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>> Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
>> Precedence: bulk
>> X-Cron-Env: <XDG_SESSION_ID=4>
>> X-Cron-Env: <XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000>
>> X-Cron-Env: <LANG=en_US.utf8>
>> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
>> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
>> X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=rgm>
>> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/rgm>
>> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=rgm>
>> X-Cron-Env: <USER=rgm>
>> Status: O
>> Content-Length: 147
>> Lines: 4
>>
>> skipping non-regular file "rfc-ref.txt"
>>
>> sent 26 bytes  received 124,898 bytes  35,692.57 bytes/sec
>> total size is 365,871,233  speedup is 2,928.75
>>
> Good....  I still wonder what mutt will do about sorting/displaying messages that don't have a Date: header.
>
I could fiddle around some more, but the session I chair starts in 20 
min.  So I will wait to see what happens tonight with cron.

(I had plenty of time during the last session; the chair was developing 
his PAR 'live' on the projector.  Bad use of a lot of people's time.)

Ah, standards meetings.  Got to love them.