My experiences with Mutt to date: Suggestions for overcoming some issues

[Cameron Simpson]

On 08Feb2021 14:43, boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:
>So I changed the command to:
>
>mbsync -a -qq
>
>and everything has been working.  I was curious as to what would happen at
>3 AM when my router would reboot.  I got:
>
>Feb  8 03:00:01 Dream-Machine1 CRON[614314]: (bob) CMD (mbsync -a -qq )
>Feb  8 03:00:24 Dream-Machine1 CRON[614312]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed,
>discarding output)
>
>Hmm.  The same "No MTA installed, discarding output" as with the originally
>worded command.  More information, but I still do not see why this message
>is generated.

I would guess your PC does not have a mail system installed. So cron 
cannot deliver the cron job output by email.

One of the benefits of have a local email system is getting stuff from 
cron et al. Also, you can use it for spooling - if mutt sends via the 
local email system you can send when offline - it will just queue.

>One concern based on earlier discussion in this thread.  I am now using
>msmtp as my MTA client.  What will happen if I send an email when, for
>whatever reason, Gmail connectivity is broken?  Will it get resent?

I don't know. What does its manual say?

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>