Re: how does mutt send?
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On Tuesday, 23.11.2004 at 23:56 -0000, richard@the-place.net wrote:
> sendmail "/usr/sbin/exim4 -bm"
Interesting that it was that option which fixed it: by default, Debian
symlinks the usual location of sendmail to the installed MTA, even when
sendmail is not installed (this is, I believe, part of the
exim4-daemon-light package).
On Woody:
/usr/sbin/sendmail -> exim
On Sarge:
/usr/sbin/sendmail -> exim4
This happens because many programs have, in the past, expected to find
sendmail on a system. The command line options for exim are (almost)
the same as for sendmail, at least insofar as they are required for
sending out a message in the manner you have been trying to do.
Obviously, setting your option above doesn't *hurt*; I am surprised it
is necessary, however: I have mutt running and I have not specified
anything in the 'sendmail' variable in my ~/.muttrc - and it gets passed
through to Exim without any problem (presumably as a result of the
symlink mentioned above).
Do you have that symlink?
Dave.
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