sendmail + mutt (debian) setup question

[Fraser Campbell]

On November 18, 2003 06:57 pm, Max Blanco wrote:

> I have mutt and sendmail installed, but so far, I can't send or receive
> mail.  It jst goes into nullspace somewhere.  I'm mystified.

Where does it go?

Try:

  echo test | mail max

That should send an email to the user max on your machine.  Check:

- does the mail command complain (then sendmail is probably very screwed up)
- check the maillog (tail -f /var/log/mail.info), what does it say?

> Any ideas?  I'm not particularly tied to either mutt or sendmail, so if
> some other combination can do the job with no hassle, I'll try it.

No ideas without more information.  FWIW I much prefer postfix and the debian 
postfix package offers some pretty easy to follow dialogs when you install it 
that should get it working just fine.  Still I'd rather see you figure out 
the issue first since it may not be related to sendmail at all.

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