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From: joe@talkhouse.com (Joe Wölfel)
Subject: [sup-talk] Can't seem to send mail
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 16:03:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B9FE7468-E096-4E40-A6E8-37372F266EA2@talkhouse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244486438-sup-3501@ntdws12.chass.utoronto.ca>


On Jun 8, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Ben Walton wrote:

> Excerpts from Joe W?lfel's message of Mon Jun 08 14:05:34 -0400 2009:
>> It looks like sendmail isn't functioning and doesn't generate any
>> errors.   Maybe it's a mac problem.  I haven't tried it on anything
>> else yet.
>
> Personally, I don't think sendmail has _ever_ been functional, but
> that's just the grumpy side of me that has to configure it on clunky
> old boxes still! :)
>
> It's likely working, but has a local delivery setup configured.  Try
> using `mailq` to see if anything is sitting in the outbound queue.
> You may also want to look in /var/spool/mail for mbox files sitting
> there with the messages (or bounces) sent from sup.
>
> If you want to get your hands dirty, I recommend exim as the
> replacment for sendmail.  I like it's configuration and acl setup
> better than postfix, but that would also work.  If you just want to
> send mail quickly and easily, try msmtp or a similar package.

Thanks.  Looks like msmtp did the trick.  Debugging sendmail was more  
than I cared to take on. 
  


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-08 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-08 15:21 Joe Wölfel
2009-06-08 15:50 ` Andrei Thorp
2009-06-08 15:52 ` Ben Walton
2009-06-08 18:05   ` Joe Wölfel
2009-06-08 18:42     ` Andrei Thorp
2009-06-08 18:44     ` Ben Walton
2009-06-08 20:03       ` Joe Wölfel [this message]
2009-06-08 20:53         ` Andrei Thorp

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