Almost there with postfix.
Google AI had me set:
home_mailbox = Mailbox
and the mail was going to ~/Mailbox
So I changed it to:
home_mailbox = /var/mail
Which is where mutt looks by default.
I also turned on:
mail_spool_directory = /var/mail
We will see how that goes. I have the official backup scheduled for
2:02 tonight.
On 6/26/25 9:05 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote:
On 6/26/25 8:34 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Robert Moskowitz via users wrote:
Or set up postfix local delivery to just use mailbox.
More googling.
The default is mbox. :)
But not in ~/Mailbox
default is /var/mail/user
You mentioned having to change some postfix settings,
perhaps sharing what those were might help?
google Ai for "Fedora postfix setup for local mail only"
I tried pasting the instructions here, but it is not working to copy
and paste from google...
I started a Fedora Workstation 42 Live image, installed
mailx and postfix, then ran
echo test | mailx -s test liveuser
and the message was delivered to the liveuser mailbox in
/var/spool/mail as I would expect. It's been ages since I
setup a system from scratch, so I wanted to be sure that it
did still work as I thought.
The postconf man page provides a convenient method to show
settings that differ from built-in defaults:
LANG=C comm -23 <(postconf -n) <(postconf -d)
It's not an empty list on an install where I didn't touch
main.cf, so don't be surprised if you see changes which
aren't ones you made.
Though, if you backed up the main.cf before making changes,
a simple diff might be better to show what you changed. If
you saved a copy as main.cf.dist~, for example, this would
be handy to see what's changed:
diff -u /etc/postfix/main.cf{.dist~,}
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