Re: Sending messages error
Hi
Many thanks, for the echo to mail test. I got a post with the "From:" header
screwed. So now I know what I need to fix.
To: gena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Georgina Joyce <gena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:08:05 +0100
Cheers
Gena
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:40:59PM +0100, Georgina Joyce wrote:
> 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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