Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:52:15 -0600
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Tony Baldwin wrote:
> > What else can I do to diagnose this issue and/or, of course,
> > resolve it?
>
> I think this must be something other than mutt. In your description
> you didn't mention how you were sending email and therefore I know you
> weren't looking at that part of things. I suspect it is in the MTA
> side of things.
>
> Normally (and I say normally in the traditional sense knowing that
> many people do things differently now) the MUA (mail user agent). The
> MUA is mutt, mailx, pine, or other. Those MUAs send the message to
> /usr/sbin/sendmail. The /usr/sbin/sendmail binary is one of Postfix,
> Exim, Sendmail or other MTA (mail transfer agent).
OR, one of those SMTP on-ramp things like nullmailer. If you feel
strongly that you don't want a full fledged MTA on your machine, you
can use an on-ramp to replace /usr/sbin/sendmail and the send
executable. If you're using an on-ramp, I recommend nullmailer because
it employs a queue, whereas some of its competitors just block until
messages are sent.
Here's some stuff I wrote on nullmailer:
* http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nullmailer/index.htm
* http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nullmailer/landmines.htm
SteveT
Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
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