On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:38:19PM -0600, epektasis wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>       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.

doesn't look cryptic too me :-)

mutt has called 'smtpd' with the option -N and as you stated, there's no
such option so it's not legal.


> 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.
> 

indeed, your configuration was wrong.

sendmail is the name of a historical interface used to submit messages.
you can't just stuff the path to an SMTP server, the executable must ...
support the sendmail interface.


-- 
Gilles Chehade

https://www.poolp.org                                          @poolpOrg

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