Hi everyone,
I've spent some time in the last week to set up a nice .muttrc and get
familiar with using mutt. I've never enjoyed reading e-mail more.
However, one thing I do miss is sending e-mail. Since mutt uses
/usr/sbin/sendmail and it is supposed to just work (and probably usually
does), I had a lot of trouble finding any archives with someone
describing the same problem I am having. 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.
I am quite stuck, and don't like opening Evo just to send mail. Could
someone on this list possibly give me some insight as to what happens
when I hit "y" to send a message in mutt? And maybe how I can find out
what's going on in the background so I can pinpoint the problem? I would
really appreciate it!
Cheers,
Sam
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