Local email delivery for cron output

[sunaku]

Hello,

I'm trying to set up local email delivery for cron output in Void Linux using:

• dcron - Dillon's lightweight cron daemon
• dma - Small Mail Transport Agent (MTA), designed for home and office use
• mailx - Feature-rich BSD mail(1)

I've installed the above packages, enabled the dcron service, and ran a test:

$ echo hello world | mail -s testing $USER

Immediately after, I can see that dma has accepted and queued that email:

$ ls /var/spool/dma
Q1fef0.564ce8239eb0  M1fe62.564952c5feb0

$ dma -bp
ID      : 1fef0.564ce8239eb0
From    : void@linux
To      : void

However, when I use mailx to read that email message, it's unable to access it:

$ mail
No mail for void

I've also ran dma -q to manually flush the queue, but it didn't affect mailx.

How do I make dma deliver email to mailx so that I can read my cron output?

Thanks for your consideration.

P.S. I've also asked this question on the Void Linux Forum without much success. :confounded:

[corecode]

what are the permissions on the queue files and directory?

[sunaku]

Hey, thanks for the response :+1: and sorry for my delay! :sweat: Here are the permissions you requested:

drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4.0K Jun 25 12:02 /var/spool/dma
-rw-rw---- 1 void mail  328 Oct  2  2016 /var/spool/dma/M1fe62.564952c5feb0
-rw-rw---- 1 void mail   62 Oct  2  2016 /var/spool/dma/Q1fe62.564952c5feb0

However, everything magically started working (without any effort on my part) earlier this year. :sweat_smile: I'll see if I can still reproduce this issue on another machine on which I recently set up a brand new Void Linux install.

[reedjc]

dma would log about problems writing to the mbox.