Thanks, Nathan,
On 5/06/19 10:37 PM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 21:30:51 +1200, Frank Watt wrote:
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Would that really work? It's an attractive idea, avoiding the
complications of compiling new code with ancient functionality and
getting rid of sendmail's idiosynchracies. Is there any reason not to
try?
Well, the first question is "how does your incoming email get
delivered"? If it's delivered locally to the machine where you are
running Mutt, you will need to be sure that sendmail is not involved in
delivering it (because nullmailer is specifically designed not to
support delivering mail to local mailboxes).
I thought fetchmail had nothing to do with sendmail, but that evidently
isn't the case. I installed nullmailer and fetchmail ceased to work.
Does procmail use sendmail?
At least it was simple to get back to where I was by reinstalling
sendmail. So sendmail still works where it used to with fetchmail, but
not where it used to work with my ISP's SMTP server :-(
I didn't get Nullmailer to send any mail. That might be because I
screwed up the configuration. There's not much point figuring that out
if I can't use fetchmail.
On the other hand, if you do only need "/usr/sbin/sendmail" for sending
outgoing messages, then yes, Nullmailer is very likely to work as a
replacement for Sendmail.
(With the caveat that whether Nullmailer can actually work around your
current problem does depend on what exactly is going wrong with your
current configuration...).
Well, that's still very much a yet to be sorted out issue.
Should I go back to getting qmail (or something else) to replace sendmail?
Thank you all for your various helpful information.
Frank
