Hi, * Nick Stewart [05/31/02 19:37:03 CEST] wrote: > On 05/31@18:57, Rocco Rutte wrote:
[ no mail delivery ] > Great. I've ask the recipient to ask the postmaster from > more information. Good. > I have two more queries (apologies in advance for their > mundane nature): No problem. That's what this is for... > 1. I am running mutt on my SuSE linux pc a home as under a > "user" account. I am using sendmail and fetchmail to do > the dirty work. My method of sending mail is this: > After mutt has given me the "mail sent" message I become > superuser and type > $ sendmail -q > My question is: Is this standard proceedure? Yes and no. Sendmail is holding the mail back until you flush the mail queue (with -q). This is - in most cases - only usefull when you have a dialup connection and are not online all the time: you get mail with fetchmail, disconnect, answer everything, dial in again and flush the queue to disconnect. > Or should mutt be telling sendmail > "hey, send this mail now" to which sendmail responds "sure > sending mail now"? I'm not the sendmail expert (because Postfix exists :-) but I'd bet it is impossible since this is a system-wide setting in sendmail.cf. This has nothing to do with mutt, it's sendmail. > 2. With regard to undelivered mail. I was told to set > envelope_from but when I set it in /etc/Muttrc I get > X-Athentification-Warning hearders on my mail. Is this > because I need to set my user account to trusted user? Yes, look for sendmail documentation since this is a FAQ (I guess since lots of people ask). Cheers, Rocco
