On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 02:33:50PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 20 Jul 2014 at 16:08:25 +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 12:55:09PM +0000, Curt wrote: > > > > > > I understood that he is using Mutt's native smtp support and the default > > > exim configuration, which only handles local mail, I believe. > > > > > > Maybe an attempt to send mail to a remote location with Mutt from > > > the command line would result in some useful warning/error messages. > > > > I did that, now, and got no error msgs (but got a bounce message in mail > > declaring that mail to remote domains was not supported...this being > > without my .muttrc, when mailing with my .muttrc, I get that interrupted > > system call error). > > I'm persuaded by Curt and what you write to believe that your smtp > transport is provided by mutt and not exim. Furthermore, you say that > your desktop and myownsite.me have identical mutts and mutt configs. > Wouldn't this imply the problem on the desktop lies outside mutt and > in some other machine configuration? >
Probably the biggest differences is the myownsite.me has postfix/dovecot and the desktop has exim, but I don't know if mutt is using exim or postfix anyway, as mentioned. I think it's just the native support on both. > There is probably a good reason for you to use mutt's native smtp > support but you could consider using exim to sidestep the issue. How would I change from one to the other? tony -- http://www.myownsite.me web design, development and hosting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140722110539.ga16...@myownsite.me
