Using procmail to send cron output to local mailbox
Robert Moskowitz <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.procmail |
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A little background: With Fedora 20, an MTA is no longer installed by default. The assumption is, only servers really need an MTA, and if a client system needs one, the system owner is smart enough to figure out to install one. Well I use cron for various tasks on my notebook, and I am trying to get local delivery to work without an MTA. After days of going back and forth on the Fedora user list, it has come down to procmail able to deliver mail locally without an MTA. So in /etc/sysconfig/crond I have: # Settings for the CRON daemon. # CRONDARGS= : any extra command-line startup arguments for crond CRONDARGS=-m "/usr/bin/procmail" and this works in terms of getting content into /var/spool/mail/rgm, but the content is not a valid mailbox for mutt to process it. Here is the content of my mailbox. Note no starting or ending blank line(s): From: "(Cron Daemon)" <rgm> To: rgm Subject: Cron <rgm@lx120e> rsync -tvz ftp.rfc-editor.org::rfcs/*.txt /home/common/ietf/rfcs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Precedence: bulk X-Cron-Env: <XDG_SESSION_ID=45> 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> skipping non-regular file "rfc-ref.txt" RFCs_for_errata.txt rfcxx00.txt sent 3,486 bytes received 125,267 bytes 15,147.41 bytes/sec total size is 365,871,233 speedup is 2,841.65 ========================================= Is there a procmail receipt that will create a proper mailbox? I want to see if I can do this before throwing in the towel and installing postfix...