Am Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 08:40:05PM +0100 schrieb tastytea: > On 2021-12-12 14:25+0100 Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > Hey list, > > > > I am looking for an as-simple-as-possible setup for local mail > > delivery. What I mean by that is: the mail shall go into > > /var/spool/mail locally, which is why I deem it overkill to set up > > and run a complicated smtpd daemon with its own config file language. > > mail-client/mailx provides /usr/bin/mail which can be used for looking > at mail in /var/spool/mail/ and for sending it to local users. No > configuration necessary. cron and other software will automatically use > it.
OK, it looks promising -- very neatly small and tiny. But: lcars ~ # echo hello | mail root lcars ~ # mail No mail for root lcars ~ # Using strace, I found out that mail from mailx puts those mail into /var/spool/clientmqueue/, one file per mail, but not in a maildir structure. I had similar issues with mailutils’ mda. The ebuild installs no manpage and the package’s website simply points to debian.org. -_- In many places I read that system mail—by default—goes into /var/spool/mail/<user>, but until now I’ve yet to observe this behavior. It’s becoming a little frustrating by now. This is also not my first attempt at this; I tried this before in the past years but never reached the goal. -- Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. “Hodor.”
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