Error while sending a mail from mutt

Error while sending a mail from mutt

[AYAN KUMAR HALDER]

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.

Regards,
Ayan Kumar Halder

Error while sending a mail from mutt

[Jim Davis]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:32 PM, AYAN KUMAR HALDER
<ayankumarh@gmail.com> 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 at 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 at example.com </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@example.com, 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.

-- 
Jim

Error while sending a mail from mutt

[Okash Khawaja]

> On 29 Mar 2017, at 21:19, Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:32 PM, AYAN KUMAR HALDER
> <ayankumarh@gmail.com> 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 at 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 at example.com </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 at example.com, 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.

Error while sending a mail from mutt

[AYAN KUMAR HALDER]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:15 AM, Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 29 Mar 2017, at 21:19, Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:32 PM, AYAN KUMAR HALDER
>> <ayankumarh@gmail.com> 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 at 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 at example.com </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 at example.com, 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.

Error while sending a mail from mutt

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:32 PM, AYAN KUMAR HALDER
<ayankumarh@gmail.com> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Ayan Kumar Halder
>
> _______________________________________________
> Kernelnewbies mailing list
> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
> https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

I've set up mutt to use Gmail using the instructions given here:
https://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/UseCases/Gmail
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/mutt#Summary

Hope this helps.

Error while sending a mail from mutt

[Okash Khawaja]

> How do I see what arguments are being sent by mutt to sendmail.

In ~/.muttrc, where it says

set sendmail=...

Replace the argument with your custom script which logs all arguments passed to it. 

> Is there any quicker way by which I can get mutt working fine.

Error while sending a mail from mutt

[Amit Kumar]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 01:02:48AM +0530, AYAN KUMAR HALDER 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.
Hi,
https://github.com/freeark1/something-to-share
Please follow above URL, there you will find muttrc and msmtprc.
Change settings in both files as it suits you.
Copy muttrc in .mutt directory in $HOME
Copy msmtprc as .msmtprc in $HOME
Install msmtp
NB: ca trust file location for debian based system is different.
If any doubt, please mail.

Regards,
Amit Kumar
> 
> Regards,
> Ayan Kumar Halder
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Kernelnewbies mailing list
> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
> https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Error while sending a mail from mutt

[Sebastien Masson]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 05:19:08AM +0000, Amit Kumar wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 01:02:48AM +0530, AYAN KUMAR HALDER 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.
> Hi,
> https://github.com/freeark1/something-to-share
> Please follow above URL, there you will find muttrc and msmtprc.
> Change settings in both files as it suits you.
> Copy muttrc in .mutt directory in $HOME
> Copy msmtprc as .msmtprc in $HOME
> Install msmtp
> NB: ca trust file location for debian based system is different.
> If any doubt, please mail.
> 
> Regards,
> Amit Kumar

This is my personal notebook but it might help, so, feel free to grab
some info: http://wiki.masson.engineer/index.php?title=Linux:Administration#eMails_Exchange

This specific part is about mutt configuration for SMTP & IMAP, using
exim.

BR,
Sebastien.

> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ayan Kumar Halder
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Kernelnewbies mailing list
> > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
> > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
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Error while sending a mail from mutt

[Amit Kumar]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 09:57:25AM +0200, Sebastien Masson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 05:19:08AM +0000, Amit Kumar wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 01:02:48AM +0530, AYAN KUMAR HALDER 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.
> > Hi,
> > https://github.com/freeark1/something-to-share
> > Please follow above URL, there you will find muttrc and msmtprc.
> > Change settings in both files as it suits you.
> > Copy muttrc in .mutt directory in $HOME
> > Copy msmtprc as .msmtprc in $HOME
> > Install msmtp
> > NB: ca trust file location for debian based system is different.
> > If any doubt, please mail.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Amit Kumar
> 
> This is my personal notebook but it might help, so, feel free to grab
> some info: http://wiki.masson.engineer/index.php?title=Linux:Administration#eMails_Exchange
> 
> This specific part is about mutt configuration for SMTP & IMAP, using
> exim.
http://www.masson.engineer/index.html
Very innovative way to present resume.
Thanks.
> 
> BR,
> Sebastien.
> 
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Ayan Kumar Halder
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Kernelnewbies mailing list
> > > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
> > > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Kernelnewbies mailing list
> > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
> > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies