Re: Sending messages error
Hi
Whoops, I didn't explain myself properly. I reinstalled everything because the
original partitioning scheme wasn't big enough for debian. So it was a
complete install of sarge, so no dependency problems.
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 04:16:02PM -0400, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> See 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
> --
> We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow worm.
> -- Winston Churchill
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