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Re: mutt and postfix's /usr/sbin/sendmail



Sami Samhuri wrote:
> 
>  
> I use postfix and the sendmail binary is in place at
> /usr/sbin/sendmail. I can send mail from the command line as well as
> from Evolution when I set my outgoing server to 'sendmail'.  When
> mutt tries to send mail I see "Sending message..." in the status bar
> and it sits there until I interrupt it and discard or postpone the
> message. I have tried:
>
>       :set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
> and
>       :set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -f <address> --"
> 
> I looked through the Evo source to see how they used sendmail and came
> up with the second string I tried. From reading the postfix man page on
> sendmail I gathered that -oem is ignored by postfix and -oi is
> equivalent to -i, so basically Evo and mutt invoke sendmail using the
> same options from a postfix point of view.

Sam-

Did you ever get this fixed?  I'm having the exact same problem with
mutt 1.4.2.1i on Darwin 7.5.0 (OSX 10.3.5).

--aaron