Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/26/25 3:22 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> Try mailx for starters? >> >> Or does it need more... > > To get the terms right, you need an MDA or LDA, not an MTA. :-) > Something that can do local mail delivery and it seems that there are no > options available other than the usual servers. > > If you really don't want to do that, you can try something from https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/82093/minimal-mta-that-delivers-mail-locally-for-cron A similar question came up in IRC just the other day, so it's fresher in my mind than it would usually be... What crond really requires by default for mail delivery is a sendmail(8) compatible interface, which postfix, exim, msmtp, ssmpt, and, of course, sendmail all provide. In crond(8), the -m and -s options may also be useful: -m This option allows you to specify a shell command to use for sending Cron mail output instead of using sendmail(8) This command must accept a fully formatted mail message (with headers) on standard input and send it as a mail message to the recipients specified in the mail headers. Specifying the string off (i.e., crond -m off) will disable the sending of mail. -s This option will direct Cron to send the job output to the system log using syslog(3). This is useful if your system does not have sendmail(8) installed or if mail is disabled. IMO the simplest thing to do is just install postfix. It will handle local mail by default and you're done. (It only listens on localhost interfaces by default, so there's no effort involved to make it _not_ behave as an internet facing MTA.) It sounds like that's what you have on your Ubuntu system as well, so it's not really any different. It's just that Fedora no longer installs postfix by default in the desktop spins. -- Todd
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