I use cron to run some jobs, but since that's the only thing I use my unix mail for, having this run through Mail.app would be a nicer experience than seeing "You have new mail." in the Terminal.
How can I do this?
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2Back in the old days when Mail.app natively used .mbox mailboxes as storage, this was as easy as setting up a symlink or two. Nowadays Mail.app uses several SQLite databases, so even if you got it to work, I think it would be pretty fragile. You can import mboxes still, but it's probably easier to configure a local-only dovecot IMAP/POP server, or use a more pleasant command-line mail client like mutt/alpine.– vykorCommented Jan 23, 2019 at 0:41
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see: stackoverflow.com/questions/25211086/… for some ideas.– historystampCommented Jan 23, 2019 at 18:50
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also see: gist.github.com/Moligaloo/3850710 You can run an apple script from the command line. osascript.– historystampCommented Jan 23, 2019 at 19:04
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This is also conceptually the same as this: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/231031/…– AlexCommented Jan 24, 2019 at 19:36
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Brutal solution: set up postfix to handle outgoing mail, and create a ~/.forward file forwarding all mail to your "real" mail account. Not for the faint of heart but, then again, neither is running cron jobs. :)
