Help setting up cron to send me emails

I'm currently using cron to run daily backups of my system and to also run rkhunter. When I was using openSUSE I could set up my email to check my local account. I believe that I need "postfix" to be able to do this so I installed it. What else do I need to do besides having this program installed? When I try to add the local account in kmail it is asking me to select a file location. I'm not sure what file to select here. In openSUSE it was already selected for me. Any ideas?
Thanks!

I'm no expert on postfix and used to rely on the PostFix HostOnly Howto page in the wiki. Unfortunately, that page got deleted a week or so ago and the content doesn't appear to have been copied into either of the other two postfix pages. Anyway, this is the gist of what it contained:
From http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PostFix_HostOnly_Howto (since deleted)
$ pacman -Sy postfix
Check /etc/passwd, /etc/group to make sure that the following shows up:
postfix:x:73:73::/var/spool/postfix:/bin/false
Make sure that the following shows up in /etc/group:
postdrop:x:75:
postfix:x:73:
Edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and add the following:
inet_interfaces = loopback-only
mynetworks_style = host
append_dot_mydomain = no
default_transport = error: Local delivery only!
Edit /etc/rc.conf and add postfix to the daemons list.
Edit /etc/postfix/aliases and add a username to receive root email, i.e. put a
username in for the the following, substituting the desired actual system
account name for USER:
# Person who should get root's mail. Don't receive mail as root!
root: USER
Run the following command to create a map file for postfix:
$ postalias /etc/postfix/aliases
Create .forward in /root containing the mail address of the user to whom all
mail for root will be forwarded, e.g. USER@localhost
Start the postfix daemon by running
$ postfix check
followed by
$ /etc/rc.d/postfix start
Check /var/log/mail.log for any errors.
Try sending an email:
$ mail -s test USER
this is a test email.
Last edited by azleifel (2009-12-25 09:35:58)

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