mutt and ssmtp on Cygwin on Windows Server 2003 'child exited 127'

[Mark Bohlman]

gert_de_boer@ch.schindler.com wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> Somehow I do not succeed in configuring mutt or ssmtp with Cygwin on a
> Windows 2003 server.
> 
> As an example of what happens:
> 
> $ echo hallo | mutt -s new_test myname@mycompany.com
> Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.).
> Could not send the message.
> 
> The error is exactly the same as when I have a wrong 'sendmail' defined in
> my .muttrc on a server where cygwin runs without any problem.  However I
> defined it correct:
> set sendmail=/usr/sbin/ssmtp
> 
> Executing ssmtp on its own delivers an empty mail at myname@mycompany.com,
> so the error is not there.
> 
> It all works without any problem on Windows XP and Windows 2000.
> 
> So it seems something has changed in Windows 2003: for some reason mutt
> cannot trigger ssmtp to do its job.
> 
> Something similar seems to happen between the CYGWIN cron service and the
> scripts it is supposed to start. Nothing happens, but if I look in the
> eventviewer I see the following order of events:
> 
> PID 3188: (myaccount) RELOAD (tabs/myaccount)
> 
> PID 3392: (myaccount) CMD (/home/myaccount/bin/test_mail.sh)
> 
> PID 3392: (CRON) error (can't switchuser context)
> 
> So it is just an idea of mine that somehow (some) programs are not able to
> start others, due to some rigid security settings.
> 
> BTW, all the above is done as with a group account with administrator
> rights on the server.
> 
> Gert de Boer
> 
> gert de boer at ch schindler com
> 
> cygcheck.out:
> (See attached file: cygcheck.out):
> 

I had a similar problem on Win2K until I checked the 
/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf file and found an improper setting.  Also check 
the ~/.muttrc file for correct settings.  Fixing this got rid of the 
same error message on my system.  See also /usr/share/doc/mutt-xxx.README.
Hope this helps.
-- Mark


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