hmmm ...
i've had problems with this when mutt was using the wrong sendmail binary (or
i've forgotten to replace the OEM sendmail with a link to qmail's sendmail
binary. make sure that /usr/sbin/sendmail is a link to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
(or whereever you installed qmail) and try again.
-- michael
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Horacio MG wrote:
> I've compiled and installed the latest version of mutt on OpenBSD 2.7.
> The MTA I'm using is qmail 1.03.
>
> I use fetchmail to retrieve the mail, and procmail to deliver it. I set
> both procmail and mutt to use maildir instead of mbox (it seems that
> mutt won't recognize the mbox style messages since they lack a from
> field on the first line).
>
> I can send mail through the 'mail' command, but if I try to send from
> the mutt compose menu, I get this warning
>
> Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.).
>
> when i press <y> to send.
>
>
> i read the mailing list archives looking for this error, and i found
> some directions like upgrading to the latest procmail (which i did) and
> installing mutt after installing/configuring qmail (so i recompiled and
> reinstalled). but i still get the same error.
>
> Could anyone help with this, please? TIA.
>
> more info (well, in my latest build I didn't enable exact_address, nor
> pop or gnu_regex, nor did I used compressed):
>
> $ mutt -v
>
> Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28)
> Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Michael R. Elkins and others.
> Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
> Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
>
> System: OpenBSD 2.7 [using ncurses 5.0]
> Compile options:
> -DOMAIN
> -DEBUG
> -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
> -USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL +USE_POP -HAVE_REGCOMP +USE_GNU_REGEX
> +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE +EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS
> +COMPRESSED
> SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
> MAILPATH="/var/mail"
> SHAREDIR="/usr/local/share/mutt"
> SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc"
> -ISPELL
> To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> To report a bug, please use the muttbug utility.
>
>
> --
> Horacio Anno MMDCCLIII A.U.C.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPAŅA
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