[Techtalk] Mutt O'phobia

[Siobhan Elliott]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:25:01AM +0000, anti tanvir wrote:
 
> But when I do fetchmail it says something dangerous:
> 
> 1 message for user at pop.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (1023
> octets).
> reading message 1 of 1 (1023 octets) . flushed
> fetchmail: No mail for user  at pop.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> 
> That is, it reads the msg and send it straight to
> /dev/null

I believe sendmail actually has to be running in daemon mode, so
fetchmail can pass mail to it for local delivery. When you do

$ ps -ef | grep '[s]endmail'

do you get anything? Can you telnet to localhost port 25 and get a sendmail
banner?

> And the .muttrc in the user's home looks like this:
> 
> set folder=~/Mail
> set from="User <user at mail.com>"
> set hostname="mail.com" #[this is not the smtp server]
> set envelope_from="yes"
> 
> Sending mail:
> 
> error sending message: child exited 69(service
> unavailable)

Try adding this to your .muttrc:

set sendmail="<PATH TO SENDMAIL BINARY> -oi -oem" 

-Siobhan

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