Two kinds of errors occurred while I was getting
opensmtpd working. They occurred on both OpenBSD 6.2 and
Void Linux (both up-to-date as of 29 Jan 2018). These errors
were issued by opensmtpd against settings in muttrc; opensmtpd
refused to handle any emails until these settings were changed.
I simply pass them along in case they might help another.
The first error message was cryptic:
smtpd: illegal option --N
Nowhere in mutt (1.9.1 and 1.9.2, repectively), nor in smtpd
could I find any setting that used -N. After replacing in
muttrc my line, set sendmail="/usr/bin/smtpd" with set
sendmail="/usr/bin/sendmail -oi -oem" (on Void Linux; in
OpenBSD the sendmail link is in /usr/sbin/), the error message
did not recur. It seems opensmtpd does not want mutt to send
a message directly to it but to use the sendmail link.
The second kind of error messages clearly indicated
where the problems were: one clearly mentioned set dsn_notify and
another set dsn_hdrs. These also are settings in muttrc; once
I pounded out those (letting them default), then I was able to
send emails through my ISP's mail server.
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