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 recipients specified > "/home/rgm/dead.letter" 41/879 > > Here is the content of d1.letter. Note that there is a 'To:' line but it > seems mailx does not like it? > > From: "(Cron Daemon)" <rgm> > To: rgm > Subject: Cron <rgm@lx120e> rsync -tvz ftp.rfc-editor.org::rfcs/*.txt > /home/common/ietf/rfcs > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > skipping non-regular file "rfc-ref.txt" > RFCs_for_errata.txt > bcp-index.txt > fyi-index.txt > ien-index.txt > rfc-index-latest.txt > rfc-index.txt > rfc6940.txt > rfc7048.txt > rfc7078.txt > rfc7086.txt > rfc7094.txt > rfc7095.txt > rfc7096.txt > rfc7097.txt > rfc7098.txt > rfc7103.txt > rfc7105.txt > rfc7108.txt > rfc7111.txt > rfc7115.txt > rfcxx00.txt > std-index.txt > > sent 11,194 bytes received 399,421 bytes 74,657.27 bytes/sec > total size is 365,871,233 speedup is 891.03 > > ======================================= > > The 'To:' comes from my line in /var/spool/cron/rgm > > MAILTO=rgm > >
Not really an answer.... But, I found that cat d1.letter | mailx -t Will result in the mail being delivered. -- Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serving posts -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
