On 01/21/2014 08:15 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:01:07 -0800
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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.
W
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:01:07 -0800
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 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.
>
>
What cron did you try to do,
in case it
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 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 mad
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:03:00 -0800
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Never used gmail. No plans to.
>
>
You don't need gmail, but mail can be forwarded,
without MTA, if you have suitable mua-client installed
claws-mail, Thunderbirds can both send without mta installed.
mailx can with a suitable ~/mai
On 01/21/2014 06:48 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 06:32:01 -0800
Robert Moskowitz 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/
On 01/21/2014 07:01 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:56:42 -0600
Chris Adams wrote:
eing an MTA) is overkill.
"Default-no-MTA" was never intended to be "replace all possible use
cases with no MTA". You want mail in files, so use an MTA.
You can just mailx to gmail,
get your fi
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:56:42 -0600
Chris Adams wrote:
eing an MTA) is overkill.
>
> "Default-no-MTA" was never intended to be "replace all possible use
> cases with no MTA". You want mail in files, so use an MTA.
>
You can just mailx to gmail,
get your fix that way.
No MTA required.
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 06:55:46 -0800
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> fails on no /usr/bin/sendmail. It would probably get in an infinite
> loop.
>
It just checks for /usr/bin/sendmail
which it will now be tricked into finding.
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On 01/21/2014 06:48 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 06:27:50 -0800
Robert Moskowitz 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,
Once upon a time, Ed Greshko said:
> FWIW, having an MTA running but doing nothing other than delivering mail for
> cron and other system utils doesn't utilize system resources. Getting around
> installing an MTA may be more trouble than it is worth.
Yeah, if you just have to have cron output
On 01/21/2014 06:48 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 06:32:01 -0800
Robert Moskowitz 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/
On 01/21/14 22:34, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> Something is complaining. I do have:
>
> CRONDARGS=-m "/usr/bin/mailx -t"
>
> But we see from the test of trying to use the dead.letter file that mailx
> itself is using sendmail. So you fix one problem and cause another.
I think it is pretty much
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 06:27:50 -0800
Robert Moskowitz 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
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 06:32:01 -0800
Robert Moskowitz 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 t
On 01/21/2014 06:00 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:54:10 +0800
Ed Greshko wrote:
mail's queue.
But, in my limited testing, using procmail would not require
sendmail.
No, it's inbuilt into cronie,
if /usr/bin/sendmail is not there cron mails fails.
man crond:
The syslog outpu
On 01/21/2014 05:54 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 01/21/14 21:43, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:16:19 -0800
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.
This is why:
from croni
On 01/21/2014 05:43 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:16:19 -0800
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.
This is why:
from cronie runjob.c
/* Check that we have a
On 01/21/2014 12:19 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:47:03 -0800
Robert Moskowitz 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
On 01/21/2014 01:26 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:16:19 -0800
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.
What does "systemctl status crond.service -l" say
crond.se
On 01/21/14 22:00, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:54:10 +0800
> Ed Greshko wrote:
> mail's queue.
>> But, in my limited testing, using procmail would not require
>> sendmail.
>>
> No, it's inbuilt into cronie,
> if /usr/bin/sendmail is not there cron mails fails.
>
> man crond:
> Th
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:54:10 +0800
Ed Greshko wrote:
mail's queue.
>
> But, in my limited testing, using procmail would not require
> sendmail.
>
No, it's inbuilt into cronie,
if /usr/bin/sendmail is not there cron mails fails.
man crond:
The syslog output will be used instead of mail,
when
On 01/21/14 21:43, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:16:19 -0800
> 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.
> This is why:
> from cronie runjob.c
>
> /* Check that w
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:16:19 -0800
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.
This is why:
from cronie runjob.c
/* Check that we have a way of sending mail. */
if(stat(SENDMAI
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:16:19 -0800
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.
>
What does "systemctl status crond.service -l" say
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On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:47:03 -0800
Robert Moskowitz 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
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 de
On 01/21/14 14:47, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 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
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 an
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 r
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
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