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Re: Receiving System Mail

2009-02-04 06:39:02
Rem [31.Jan.2009 02:15]:

On 2009.01.30 16:27:47 +0000, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> > Put an entry in the root crontab that fires off an email every couple of > minutes.

Why didn't I think of that?  I'll give that a try.

Rem


Well, I had crontab firing away, and I tried just about every recipe
that I could think of.  So, it appears that the problem has absolutely
nothing to do with procmail, or procmail recipes.  Something in the way
system mail is generated is keeping procmail from seeing it.  I'm not
sure where to look next, but I have the feeling that the answer lies
somewhere within /etc.

Rem

Hi,

do you have some MTA (like sendmail, postfix, ssmtp, msmtp) installed
and if yes, which one is it? I might guess that you do not get any
system mail because the mail never ever gets sent. Did it work before?

One way might be to get postfix (+ sendmail) running. IIRC, postfix has
its own sendmail alternative and should work quite well. Or you might
want to look into ssmtp, a very lightweight solution compared to
postfix. I think ssmtp should work without postfix.

I also read that it should be possible to pass local or system mail
directly to procmail "just by setting up a symlink mail->procmail".
This is something I am very interested in knowing, as I am using msmtp,
which is not capable of handling local mail, AFAIK.

Can someone please enlighten me and correct me if I am wrong?


JP Bruns

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