On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:15 AM, Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 29 Mar 2017, at 21:19, Jim Davis <jim.epost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:32 PM, AYAN KUMAR HALDER >> <ayankumarh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am trying to send a mail using mutt. I am getting the error as follows :- >>> >>> SMTP session failed: 501 5.5.4 >>> >>> I understand the error meant that a valid mail transaction protocol >>> was used with invalid arguments. Please let me know how do I debug >>> this issue further. >> >> Mutt usually invokes some other program to send mail -- on my >> workstation, for instance, that other program is /usr/sbin/sendmail: >> >> [jim@krebstar ~]$ mutt -v | grep '^SENDMAIL' >> SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" >> >> so to debug a similar problem on my workstation I'd first look to see >> where sendmail (or whatever program your mutt installation uses) logs >> its messages. >> >> That used to be in /var/log/maillog or such; nowadays you might have >> to run journalctl instead. >> >> For example, if I try >> >> mutt postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx </dev/null >> >> on my workstation, then >> >> journalctl | grep sendmail >> >> tells me >> >> Mar 29 12:59:06 krebstar.arl.arizona.edu sendmail[27263]: >> v2TJx61J027263: to=postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx, ctladdr=jim (1000/1000), >> delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30294, >> relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection >> refused by [127.0.0.1] >> >> which reminds me I don't actually have the sendmail service running. > > You can check ~/.muttrc file to see what it is using to send emails. If it is using sendmail or esmtp, then in .muttrc file where it specifies sending program you can append -X /path/to/log/file. That will output the whole SMTP dialog to that log file. In my case, I get the following error messages in /var/log/mail.log Mar 30 15:39:55 ayankh-X553SA postfix/sendmail[24765]: fatal: usage: sendmail [options] Mar 30 15:40:17 ayankh-X553SA postfix/sendmail[24891]: fatal: usage: sendmail [options] How do I see what arguments are being sent by mutt to sendmail. Is there any quicker way by which I can get mutt working fine. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
