Re: Configuring sendmail on Mac OS X (Leopard)?
Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 04Sep2008 23:03, Sahil Tandon <sahil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| Peter Davis <pfd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| > I have two Macs, one at work and one at home, running OS X 10.5. I'm
| > using nearly identical .muttrc files on both, using sendmail to send
| > outgoing messages. On my work Mac, this all behaves just fine. On
| > the home Mac, Mutt says "Message sent." but the message never arrives.
| > Both are running Mutt 1.4.2.3i.
|
| How do you set the 'sendmail' variable in .muttrc?
set sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail"|
| > Is there some way to trace the outgoing message to see where it's
| > failing? Any tips on configuring sendmail on the Mac? I didn't have
| > to do anything on the office Mac ... it just works.
|
| The binary is called sendmail, but that is just the Postfix to Sendmail
| compatibility interface. On OS X, Postfix logs to /var/log/mail.log --
| parse that file for clues, assuming mutt is (via the sendmail command)
| passing mails to Postfix.
Thanks. I looked here, and see messages like this:
Sep 4 22:02:31 PFD-Studio-Mac postfix/smtp[88615]: C037B4D62348:
to=<pfd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, relay=none, delay=30,
delays=0.2/0.05/30/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to
mailwash17.pair.com[66.39.2.17]: Operation timed ou
t)
But that doesn't tell me much.
And the "mailq" command should recite the queue of unsent messages, if
any.
Ah, this could be revealing. I get:
postqueue: fatal: Queue report unavailable - mail system is down
I don't know how to troubleshoot or start the mailsystem, but that gives
me something to Google.
Thanks!
-pd
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