I wanted to simulate a server situation on my home machine setting up and testing a mail filter using sendmail + procmail + sanitizer + a virus scanner.


So far the mail filter seems to be OK on test messages generated with formail, however, I wanted to create more complex mails with attachments.


Could you please tell me what is the best way to send local mails with attachment from one user to another on a desktop machine?





P.S.


I tried to send local mails using kmail but those messages just sit in /var/spool/mqueue undelivered forever - a thing that I cannot understand since:


- kmail is set to use /usr/sbin/sendmail (path is OK)
- I tested with sendmail -bv that sendmail knows about the local recepients


- sendmail.cf contains the definition of procmail as the local mailer (and, procmail is OK, since 'cat filename I formail -s procmail' messages are always correctly delivered; so do local system messages to root).
- checked that kmail and procmail knows that the local user mailboxes are in /var/spool/mail
What is wrong then?

Kmail should be configured as if you marchine is an remote server (especially smtp setting). If you have problems with kmail use a different one: mailer from Mozilla, pan, console pine etc.

to send mail to localhost use the username from the command line you could do:

mailx -s "subject" username < attachment
or mutt username <attachment