Nick Stewart wrote: > On 05/31@18:57, Rocco Rutte wrote: > > All you can is try to contact the responsible postmaster - > > sounds stupid since you can't deliver any mail, I know. > > Maybe the receipent can do something about it. If there's no > > error message from mutt and no kind of error report (neither > > from your nor from their MTA), I can't even guess what a > > possible reason could be.
> Great. I've ask the recipient to ask the postmaster from more > information. well you're still not showing any logs, nor are you giving information on your system type, connection type, or anything else (as far as i noticed anyway). do the messages that are "lost" show up as being accepted in your mail logs? are you by chance using sendmail from a dynamic IP (like a dialup)? you shouldn't send mail directly out from a machine that has a dynamic IP (esp. a dialup) - rather define your ISP's mail server as a "smart host". > After mutt has given me the "mail sent" message I become superuser and type > $ sendmail -q > My question is: > Is this standard proceedure? Or should mutt be telling sendmail "hey, > send this mail now" to which sendmail responds "sure sending mail > now"? not really. you should just send the message. sendmail -q is used to flush the queue (ie if a message didn't go through for some reason). under normal circumstances, you should rarely have to run 'sendmail -q'. you might consider postfix; many people feel that it's easier to configure than sendmail. the default configuration lets users other than root flush the queue. > 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? if so how? this is outside the scope of this newsgroup; do a google search or look on sendmail.org. note that the X-Authentication-Warning doesn't do anything bad, so you might want to just leave it. or switch to postfix. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >
