Re: emacs: send mail with sendmail
On 2010-09-29 05:04 +0200, T o n g wrote:
> Having updated emacs to v23.2+1-4, I lost the "send mail (with sendmail)"
> menu, but get a "send mail (with gnus message)" menu instead. As you
> might have guessed, it doesn't work for me.
Did it work before on the same machine?
> $ tail -1 /var/log/mail.log
> Sep 28 23:00:07 coral sm-msp-queue[5145]: o8SATjAs007592: to=root,
> ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=16:30:22, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
> pri=4530639, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred:
> Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Your MTA seems to be broken. Can you send mail with /usr/bin/mail?
> The sendmail has been working fine for me for over 10 years (despite some
> people hate it). I don't want to deal another MTA, is it possible to get
> that sendmail menu back?
Yes, but that doesn't change anything since message-mode also uses
sendmail for sending mail by default, like the old (and much inferior)
mail-mode.
Sven
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