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Re: Sending messages error



Hi

Whoops, I didn't explain myself properly.  I reinstalled everything because the 
original partitioning scheme wasn't big enough for debian.  So it was a 
complete install of sarge, so no dependency problems.
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 04:16:02PM -0400, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Friday, April 28 at 04:46 PM, quoth Georgina Joyce:
> >I decided that I wanted to step back from using debian unstable to 
> >stable because of the large frequent downloads required to keep the 
> >system up-to-date.
> 
> HEH, good luck. That???s a very tricky thing to do. But basically, this 
> is a Debian question. You???re probably going to get better help by 
> asking a Debian mailing list.
> 
> That said, I???ve used Debian before, and here are my thoughts:
> 
> >I've purged exim4 and reset exim4 but still can't send mail.
> 
> If I???m understanding you correctly, you just said:
> 
>    I???ve completely removed the program that sends mail, and now I 
>    can???t send mail.
> 
> I???m assuming that you really meant ???I purged the package exim4, and 
> then reinstalled an older version, after which it no longer works???, 
> which most likely means that you didn???t purge enough packages (for 
> example, exim4 comes in several pieces: exim4, exim4-base, 
> exim4-config, exim4-daemon-heavy, exim4-daemon-light, and a few 
> others).
> 
> >I can receive mail via fetchmail but just don't understand what's 
> >going on.  Can someone help?
> 
> Fetchmail is capable of delivering your mail without the use of an MTA 
> (like exim4), so being able to use it doesn???t really say much of 
> anything very conclusively.
> 
> >Here's the error and debian's package entry:
> >
> >Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.)
> 
> A return value of 127 typically means ???command not found??? so most 
> likely your program, whatever it is doing, is unable to find the 
> command it???s trying to run.
> 
> Try something simple, like this:
> 
>    echo test | mail your@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> See what happens. It may help to find out how to directly inject mail 
> with exim4 (I???ve never used it) and try that and see what happens.
> 
> ~Kyle
> -- 
> We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow worm.
>                                                  -- Winston Churchill


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