On 5/8/20 10:03 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 11:24:41PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 5/7/20 10:44 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
In my mail files each message is followed by a blank line
before the next "From_" line.  Is that a requirement of
mbox format?  If so, it may be necessary to add it to
the crontab output.

Yes, it's a requirement of the format.  That's why there's an "echo" after
"cat".  :)
except cat is not guarenteed to EOF after a newline.

New script.

I added inserting a Date: line and switched to using sed:

local]# cat mycron
#!/bin/sh

currentDate="$(date +'%a %b %d %T %Y')"
echo "From cron@localhost  $currentDate" >> /var/spool/mail/$USER
currentDate="$(date +'%a,%e %b %Y %T %z (%Z)')"
sed "/^Status:/a Date: $currentDate" >> /var/spool/mail/$USER
echo "" >> /var/spool/mail/$USER

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Took a bit to get the date function outputing the right formats.

I still suspect I am missing an important mail header.  Mutt takes a long time to start up compared to a CentOS system that DOES have postfix and cron is sending the mail to local store.

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