On my laptop, I have set up a cron that performs a weekly job. If there is something to report, I would like to get an e-mail for it. Right now I am using KMail as MUA which is able to read mail from the Maildir directory at ~/.local/share/local-mail
. Thus, I want local mail to be delivered to that folder (with a Maildir structure).
I was hoping that a dead simple program already exist that has a sendmail
interface (such that echo "$REPORT" | mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$ME"
can work with it). Installing exim or forwarding mail to my remote mailserver is considered overkill.
The question Simplest way of forwarding all mail from server? seems to target remote forwarding which does not suit my needs (I need local delivery). This old Gentoo thread ended up in crafting an old script in Perl. Surely there must exist a well-thought, dead-simple program?
Any recommendations? I am using Arch Linux.
userX@localhost.localdomain
and the stuff should end up in/var/spool/mail/userX
; you can check this yourself or create a new account to check with your MUA./usr/bin/sendmail
does not exist and cron output end up in/dev/null
./var/spool/mail
.