I have it working. I was able to remove ssmtp and it removed a logrotate file that may have been the problem. Seems to work fine.
Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I seem to have screwed up my mail transfer abilities. I had sendmail > installed, also ssh and whatever kde2 program that was similar. I > installed the xterm package from 'woody' and noticed that sendmail was > being replaced. When I try to send a mail in mutt, I can't, get > 'operating system error' message. So I apt-get install smail and it says > it can't find the package but I can use ssmtp instead. When I try to > send a mail with it I get 'error unable to open port smtp port 25' > message. I tried removing ssh but that didn't make any difference, also > installing exim, but that didn't work either. Any suggestions? > > Debian 2.2 system with potato and woody packages. > > thanks > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >