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.
next prev parent 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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