On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:28:48PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I recently changed to Debian Testing and elm-me+2.4 that comes with
> it. When I try to send myself an email using elm I get the
> error message:
>
> Failed: :no such file or directory.
>
> WHen I try try to debug with elm -d11, I get the message:
>
> Warning: system created without debugging, request ignored.
>
> However, I can send the mail to myself using
>
> sendmail -bm ....
>
> Elm is able to pick up the mail the display it. So clearly the
> problem must be with elm configuration rather than exim.
>
> What file is elm not able to find? How do I proceed from here?
strace is your friend in these situations... Try to run something like
strace -e trace=file,write -f -o /tmp/elm-strace.out <your elm-command here>
and search /tmp/elm-strace.out (near the end) for a line resembling
open("<the file in question>", ...) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
immediately followed by a couple of write() calls printing out the
"Failed: ..." error message you see.
This should give you an idea of what's going wrong.
Good luck,
Erdmut
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