On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 01:36:14PM +0100, geoffthur@ntlworld.com wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've switched to using mutt, but I can't get it to send emails. It's a
> new install of sarge, and is bang up to date. Kmail does send emails -
> including this one.
Your email doesn't seem to have been sent through Exim. I have a
header like this when sending through Exim:
Received: from debian.pjr-online.co.uk ([127.0.0.1] ident=pjr)
by debian.pjr-online.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50)
id 1DFy1h-0005LN-5g
for pjr@britishlibrary.net; Mon, 28 Mar 2005
18:27:45 +0100
...and you don't.
> I don't seem to be able to send local mail either -
> or if I can I can't see where they are going. I've tried mailing root,
> and have root: geoff in /etc/aliases, but the mails seem to disappear.
Have you looked in /var at Exim's queue and logs to see what might
have happened to your messages?
> Root can mail user geoff, though. This suggests to me that it's going
> to be a blatantly obvious group or permissions problem, but I can't see
> where. User geoff is in the mail group, and has been in and out of
> Debian-exim group, but neither worked.
Neither of them should be necessary. I don't belong to either group
and everything works.
> I'm using exim4 at the moment,
> but have tried postfix also. netstat -lpetu shows exim4 to be
> listening.
>
> My .muttrc looks like this:
>
> set folder=~/Mail
> set sendmail="/usr/sbin/exim4"
This line isn't necessary. There should be a symlink at
/usr/sbin/sendmail.
> unset bounce_delivered
> set copy=yes
> set delete=yes
> set nomark_old
> set move=yes
> set postponed=+postponed
> set record=+outbox
> mailboxes +geoffthur +green +suspect +science +crt-users
> subscribe debian-user
What about
set from = user@domain.com
set realname = "Your Name"
or (deprecated)
set my_hdr From: "Your Name" <user@domain.com>
Are you using procmail? If so, it may be delivering mail somewhere
other than /var/mail/user.
Otherwise your .muttrc looks fine to me.
> At one stage I was getting an error message when I tried to send emails,
> but I forgot to write down the error, and can't remember how I got rid
> of it. Currently the mail claims to have been sent, but doesn't go
> anywhere apart from the outbox folder, where the copies are going. When
> I start kmail it finds them all and wants to send them.
This is because KMail has a special meaning for "outbox". I suggest
calling your record folder something else, or KMail will always want
to resend all your sent mail again.
> I have been
> changing things backward and forward for days now, and have googled and
> RTFMed in vain. Surely kmail would use exim4?
Only if you set it up that way. You'd need to set up an account with
"sendmail" instead of "smtp", IIRC. It might be worth doing that to
find out whether Exim or Mutt is the problem.
> In which case the problem
> is in how I have set mutt up? I'm confused, and know the answer must be
> blindingly obvious.
>
> Sorry if I've failed to give enough info for you to help.
Also try "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" as root. If you send all mail
through your ISP, the configuration for "smarthost" ought to be ideal.
Giving up is almost unthinkable, but you could try installing msmtp
for outgoing mail if all else fails. It lacks Exim's byzantine
complexity.
--
PJR :-)
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