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Re: mutt problems sending email



On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 02:15:05AM -0500, Taro Fukunaga wrote:
> mailq reveals unsent messages.
> 
> There is an entry in /etc/inetd.conf for exim. This is how exim must be
> started, instead of the rc scripts. So why isn't email working?
> 
> It says:
> 
> smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs

this is only to handle incoming mail, from other hosts.  mutt does not
contact a tcp port to hand mail to the MTA, it pipes it into
/usr/sbin/sendmail (which is not necesarily the sendmail MTA).  

you have some misconfiguration in exim, check its logs.  or try
postfix ;-)

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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