Hi, I'm setting up an embedded machine that won't be able to send mail to the internet and it seems excessive to leave smtpd running just so root can receive cron job output, but I can't see a way to cut smtpd out of the delivery chain because mail.local doesn't implement sendmail-style command-line options (in particular it doesn't have the -t option to extract the recipient from the message headers) so I can't use it in place of smtpctl in /etc/mailer.conf.
I could probably get cron to mail.local delivery working by editing and recompiling cron to change the popen arguments but that seems like more trouble than it's worth in the long run. Is there some other way to do this? Is there a reason I've missed that this is actually just a bad idea? Thanks for your help, -- Andrew Kanaber
