On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:17:04PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:59:53AM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > > > How does /usr/bin/mail know to put outbound mail in /var/spool/exim4/input? > /usr/bin/main calls /usr/sbin/sendmail . This happens to be exim .
OK, that makes sense. I shutdown exim's deamon last night before retiring and had mail from cron this morning before restarting exim. I would guess that Mutt does the same since messages sent from Mutt when exim's deamon is not running still get into the mailq. > > > No, rather fetchmail failed since there was no connection on port 25. > According to fetchmailrc(5) , try adding the following to your > .fetchmailrc: > > mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -f %F -- %T" Thanks for the suggestion, I'd seen that, just hadn't gotten up the nerve to try it. > Shouldn't this be the default? Should is a loaded word. This is Debian. Thanks Tzafrir, Mike -- Satisfied user of Linux since 1997. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
