Re: Sending messages error
Hi
Yes, it's a debian problem in that a fresh install of debian stable sarge, mutt
is broken. I just thought that I'd like to identify the problem then I'll not
hesitate in using the debian bug reporting system.
Gena
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 04:46:43PM +0100, Georgina Joyce wrote:
> Hi All
>
> 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. But I'm having problems sending mail from my debian sarge
> system. I've tried searching for the error and it seems that it' was common
> during 2004 for MS Windows 2003. I couldn't find the fix for that platform
> either although, there was discussion of it being a security issue. The user
> has many privillages which include being added to the mail group etc. I've
> purged exim4 and reset exim4 but still can't send mail. I can receive mail
> via fetchmail but just don't understand what's going on. Can someone help?
>
> Here's the error and debian's package entry:
>
> Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.)
>
> Section: mail
> Installed-Size: 3366
> Maintainer: Marco d'Itri <md@xxxxxxxx>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 1.5.9-2sarge1
> Replaces: mutt-i, mutt-utf8
> Provides: mail-reader, imap-client
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libdb4.3, libgnutls11 (>= 1.0.16), libidn11
> (>= 0.5.13), libncursesw5 (>= 5.4-1), libsasl2 (>= 2.1.19), exim4 |
> mail-transport-agent
> Recommends: locales, mime-support
> Suggests: urlview, aspell | ispell, gnupg, mixmaster, openssl, ca-certificates
> Conflicts: suidmanager (<< 0.50), mutt-i, mutt-utf8
> Filename: pool/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge1_i386.deb
> Size: 1416718
> MD5sum: 3a6ed36226f37be26c186cec19f09559
> Description: Text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading
> Mutt is a sophisticated text-based Mail User Agent. Some highlights:
> o MIME support (including RFC1522 encoding/decoding of 8-bit message
> headers and UTF-8 support).
> o PGP/MIME support (RFC 2015).
> o Advanced IMAP client supporting SSL encryption and SASL authentication.
> o POP3 support.
> o Mailbox threading (both strict and non-strict).
> o Default keybindings are much like ELM.
> o Keybindings are configurable; Mush and PINE-like ones are provided as
> examples.
> o Handles MMDF, MH and Maildir in addition to regular mbox format.
> o Messages may be (indefinitely) postponed.
> o Colour support.
> o Highly configurable through easy but powerful rc file.
> Task: mail-server
>
> Well it seems to send from this debian sid system but I'd rather use the
> other machine.
>
> Gena
>
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