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Re: mutt won't send mail now



On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 the mental interface of 
cmustard told:

> My mutt has fleas,...well anyway,  
> 
> I posted earlier that /usr/bin/mutt was giving me 'message aborted
> error' when i was trying to reply to emails and someone was kind 
> enough to point out that ${EDITOR} was probably not specified, he was right.
> well now it appears that mutt doesn't know 'how' to send mail.
> It will state message sent but nothing will be sent. I looked at /etc/Muttrc
> and ~/.muttrc and there is no line about what sendmail to use. 
> I found a line 'set sendmail' and tried to configure it to 
> set sendmail='/usr/sbin/exim' but that doesn't appear to work. I don't 
> know what happened to my 'mutt' files, it was working fine. 
> 'mail' and exim/sendmail still work and are configured fine because i
> can sendmail from the command line fine.


set sendmail="/usr/lib/sendmail -oem -oi" 
set sendmail_wait=5

ls -al /usr/lib/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 12 2002-10-12 14:07 /usr/lib/sendmail -> ../sbin/exim

;-)

HTH

Elimar

-- 
  >what IMHO then?
  IMHO - Inhalation of a Multi-leafed Herbal Opiate ;)
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