What is the minimum configuration necessary to receive local mail?

I have a small home network.  I have a server running qmail which handles all 
my email.  I use Kmail as my email client, connecting to qmail via POP3 and 
SMTP.  The problem is that I do not receive output from local cron jobs.  

I've emerged procmail and mailutils but if those are sufficient to do the job, 
they apparently require other than the default configuration.  Trying to send 
an email to a local user via mail -t errors out because sendmail is not 
installed.

Everything I can find on the web talks about configuring an MTA.  Is it 
necessary to install a full fledged MTA (sendmail, qmail, exim, etc) in order 
to handle local mail delivery?  All I'm trying to do is handle local (this 
box only) mail messages.  Anything sent to other than a local account will go 
through the SMTP server.

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