On 2021-12-13 23:12+0100 Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 10:34:08PM +0100 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > > > 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. > > OK, I found out that this is the usual outgoing queue which needs to > be processed by sendmail, probably through another cronjob or a > process that itself checks that directory periodically.
Hmm, I'm pretty sure this worked a few years ago. I just tested it on a system on which I didn't configure mail before. My mails ended up in /var/spool/nullmailer/queue. :-( > > 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 really not easy to find a description of the default setup of > olden days (or I’m simply using the wrong search terms). Because when > you search for something like unix local mail setup, most results are > about setting up an SMTP server. In hindsight—perhaps that is simply > the way to go. :-/ A lot of packages depend on virtual/mta, including mailx. It seems you have no choice but to configure one of the MTAs virtual/mta depends on. -- Get my PGP key with `gpg --locate-keys tasty...@tastytea.de` or at <https://tastytea.de/tastytea.asc>.
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