Sending...failed with exit value 65

Sending...failed with exit value 65

[Cezar Halmagean]

Hi list,

  I've recently set up msmtp and it looks like it's working properly
  except for some cases (I don't really know which yet) I can
  successfully send mail to myself but I sometimes get this error 

  message-send-mail-with-sendmail: Sending...failed with exit value 65

  when replying to mail from other people.


Regards,
Cezar

Re: Sending...failed with exit value 65

[Thomas Christensen]

Cezar Halmagean <cezar@mixandgo.ro> writes:

> Hi list,
>
>   I've recently set up msmtp and it looks like it's working properly
>   except for some cases (I don't really know which yet) I can
>   successfully send mail to myself but I sometimes get this error 
>
>   message-send-mail-with-sendmail: Sending...failed with exit value 65
>
>   when replying to mail from other people.

You should check your msmtp log for error messages.  The exit value is
what is returned from /usr/sbin/sendmail (which should be a link or
something to msmtp) to indicate an error.

		Thomas

Re: Sending...failed with exit value 65

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

Cezar Halmagean <cezar@mixandgo.ro> writes:

> Hi list,
>
>   I've recently set up msmtp and it looks like it's working properly
>   except for some cases (I don't really know which yet) I can
>   successfully send mail to myself but I sometimes get this error 
>
>   message-send-mail-with-sendmail: Sending...failed with exit value 65
>
>   when replying to mail from other people.

[...]
The error code can be checked in the log file or here

http://freebsd-man.page2go2.com/man3/sysexits_3.html

and for your case

 EX_DATAERR (65)	   The input data was incorrect in some way.  This
			   should only be used for user's data and not system
			   files.

hmm...that doesn't seem to be too helpful.

try to send the same mail from the command line like this

create a file testmail.txt with a simple email body.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Subject: Test

test email
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
 From the command line, issue this
msmtp --file=./msmtprc.txt < ./testmail.txt someone@someplace.com

Check what happens.


 sivaram
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