On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 09:01:34PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > > Philipp Boksberger <mutt> [01/10/01 00:52 +0200]: > > I intalled mutt and exim some days ago ane everything worked fine. But > > now I have problems in sending mails. I get the following error-message: > > Error sending message, child exited 1 (). > > What does this mean? > > Is sendmail (or your local MTA / message submitter) up and running?
You can also get this error when the e-mail is addressed to a non-existent user on the local machine. However, if there are other (good) addresses in the To: field, the e-mail still gets sent to the other people, which fooled me a few times and people got multiple mailings from me... Best, Petr