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Re: The Child Exited 127 Mystery



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On Wednesday, August  9 at 09:52 AM, quoth Bill:
>The clues:
>
>#1. The mail IS delivered, but the window with the e-mail remains
>    open. And this cryptic message appears:
>
>"Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.)."

Hmm, your $sendmail program is exiting badly. What is $sendmail set 
to?

>#2. Since the window with the e-mail remains open, 'q' is pressed to
>    dismiss it, producing this message:
>
>"Postpone this message? ([yes]/no):"

That's how mutt behaves if and when the $sendmail program returns a 
failure exit code (as it has in your case).

>But, in fact, the mail HAS been sent, and Mutt has even posted it in
>the 'sent' mailbox.

Mutt saves the mail into the "sent" mailbox before attempting to send 
the message (that way you can't have a message sent that has not been 
recorded). So, if sending the message fails or appears to fail, you 
will always end up with a copy of the message in your sent mailbox.

~Kyle
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