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Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)



On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 03:45:27PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 18 Jul 2014 at 15:26:50 +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > /var/log/exim4/mainlog shows nothing I deem useful.
> > Lots of stuff like:
> > 2014-07-18 07:53:14 Start queue run: pid=13117
> > 2014-07-18 07:53:14 End queue run: pid=13117
> > 2014-07-18 08:23:14 Start queue run: pid=14426
> > 2014-07-18 08:23:14 End queue run: pid=14426
> 
> This shows exim behaving normally.
>  
> > /var/log/mail.{log,warn,info,error} are all empty, and the older files
> > (mail.*.1) show nothing since Nov 5 of last year.
> 
> Exim doesn't use these files.
> 
> > So, the logs aren't proving particularly helpful.
> 
> Assuming a valid username is "tony", mainlog should show a record of
> 
>    mail -s TEST tony@localhost
> 
> being sent.

Yeah, it does.
But that doesn't tell me anything about why mutt is faiilng.
It shows me that mail works for local users.

tony
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