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Using procmail to send cron output to local mailbox

2014-01-21 16:21:21
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

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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...


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