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Re: sending mail hangs



Angel Olivera wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18 2007 00:27, Matt Richards wrote:
>   
>> hello :)
>>
>> I have been using mutt for a little while but I have always been using
>> it on this freebsd box and everything works fine.
>>
>> I just tried to get mutt working on a linux box (gentoo), I copied my
>> .muttrc over to this new box and the only thing that dosn't work is
>> sending email, it just says 'Sending message...' untill I make it stop
>> and never says that its sent.
>>
>> I have been looking around and seen a few email with people that have
>> the same problem but there dosn't seem to be any solutions on them.
>>     
>
> This is really two questions:
>
> Firstly, you should fix your sendmail. I am assuming your sendmail
> confvar points to /usr/bin/sendmail, and that you don't have an MTA
> installed on that box. You must do that, install one (sendmail, qmail,
> postfix, exim, courier...) or a so-called "light" one that will let you
> send mail relaying it to a server in which you have authorization to
> relay.[1]
>
> Finally, set sendmail_wait to another reasonable value (in seconds) or
> to -1 to avoid having mutt wait forever for sendmail to exit.
>
> Cheers.
>
> 1. http://wiki.mutt.org/?LightSMTPagents
>
>   
hello :)

I have configured an mta on this pc and i have tried ssmtp and msmtp but
they still dont work, i have tried export SENDMAIL aswell as set
sendmail '/usr/bin/msmtp'
I have even tried
set SENDMAIL 'cat >/home/matt/testmail'
but it still hangs and testmail never gets created
I have noised that the mutt version i'm using on the freebsd box is
1.4.2.2i and the version i'm using on this pc is 1.5.13
but i really dont thing its a problem with not having a MTA setup.
I have tried mutt on another gentoo box and i seen to have exactly the
same problem.
Another thing i notice is that I have set sort=threads and the trees as
red, on my gentoo box these display correctly using -,= and > chars but
on my freebsd box they are displayed with wq> x's and m>'s.

Cheers for your help

Matty.

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