[ale] Pipe email directly to mailbox

Jason Day jasonday at worldnet.att.net
Mon Nov 3 16:07:35 EST 2003


On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:35:29AM -0500, Mike Millson wrote:
> Is there any way to add an email message to a local mailbox w/o using
> sendmail? I would like to send emails to a local account, and I would
> also like to not run sendmail. Is there any way I can format a message
> programatically and pipe it to /var/mail/myaccount?

A properly configured sendmail will deliver local mail via an MDA,
without having to run the sendmail daemon.

If you don't want that, have a look at formail.

HTH,
Jason
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