I struggled for two days trying to fix exim4. I posted the following
message,

"
I changed the /etc/apt/sources.list entries from etch to lenny and ran
apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. All went well but I
did not accept the new exim4 configuration as in the past I had to edit
the configuration. As a result exim4 was left in a broken state that
could neither be fixed nor removed. As instructed, I read
/usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz and tried to follow the
instructions without success (my fault, I just could find proper file
and make the change as instructed). Finally, I found example.conf.gz in
/usr/share/doc/exim4/examples, unzipped it and copied it to
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template. With this change apt-get -f install
completed the installation of exim4.

With exim4 installed fetchmail fetched 200+ postings from several users
lists and put them somewhere but mutt couldn't find them. As root I ran
runq but mutt still found nothing.

I know most of this setup works because I sent an email to myself and
then ran strace -e open,write fetchmail. I was able to read the email I
sent to myself in the output.

Also mutt still displays older messages which I have not erased.

For the present I am reading my emails with iceape but I preferred the
mutt output.

I would appreciate any in restoring the mutt output of the email
that fetchmail fetches.
"

and got several responses including one recommending postfix. I ran
apt-get install postfix which removed the broken exim4. With postfix
fetchmail and mutt worked immediately for downloading and reading mail.

Now I find sending mail from mutt is not working. I have tried replying
to several entries in the list (Shift-L, edit with vi, :wq and answer y
to Send? and get an immediate response Mail Sent) but my messages never
appear on the list.

So I have traded one problem for another and am back to using iceape
instead of mutt.

Tom George


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On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:17:12AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:

> Now I find sending mail from mutt is not working. I have tried replying to
> several entries in the list (Shift-L, edit with vi, :wq and answer y to
> Send? and get an immediate response Mail Sent) but my messages never appear
> on the list.

Please post the output of 'postconf -n'

Regards,
Andrei
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