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[Christoph Höger]

Am Sonntag, den 11.10.2009, 16:34 -0700 schrieb Konstantin Svist:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a problem with unix mail
> 
> Whenever there's a cron failure, etc. mail gets sent to root on 
> localhost. It seems that it tries to use sendmail, except I have ssmtp 
> set up in the alternatives.
>  From reading the docs, it looks like ssmtp doesn't support unix mail.
> 
> I don't want the localhost mail to go out through a real smtp server, 
> and I'm not too keen on running a huge mailing package like sendmail or 
> postfix on my laptop. What are my options?
> 
> Thanks

Hi,

you could write a script directly invoke procmail. That should be pretty
straight forward.

regards

christoph
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