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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxSee 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
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