One more issue :) When I try to send mail, I get the error "Mail not sent. Need MAIL command."
Does this ring any bells?
One more issue :) When I try to send mail, I get the error "Mail not sent. Need MAIL command."
Does this ring any bells?
Thank you, --Rob
On 2021-03-03, Rob Pyott <arp...@gmail.com> wrote:Well, I didn't have sendmail! I installed it. Now Alpine tries to send, but returns the error "recipients name must be specified." Pointers...? Thx.
One more issue :) When I try to send mail, I get the error "Mail not sent. Need MAIL command."MAIL suggests an variable. Perhaps it means the sendmail command.
Look in pinerc and see what the
sendmail_path=
says. Ie, you may not have the equivalent of sendmail on your system.
Does this ring any bells?
Thank you, --Rob
One more issue :) When I try to send mail, I get the error "Mail not
sent. Need MAIL command."
Does this ring any bells?
On 04/03/2021 00.32, Rob Pyott wrote:
One more issue :) When I try to send mail, I get the error "Mail not sent. Need MAIL command."
Does this ring any bells?
In Linux, there should be a command named "mail". I don't know in what
On Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 8:39:15 PM UTC-5, William Unruh wrote:
On 2021-03-03, Rob Pyott <arp...@gmail.com> wrote:Well, I didn't have sendmail! I installed it. Now Alpine tries to send, but returns the error "recipients name must be specified." Pointers...?
One more issue :) When I try to send mail, I get the error "Mail not sent. Need MAIL command."MAIL suggests an variable. Perhaps it means the sendmail command.
Look in pinerc and see what the
sendmail_path=
says. Ie, you may not have the equivalent of sendmail on your system.
Does this ring any bells?
Thank you, --Rob
On 04/03/2021 02.10, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 04/03/2021 00.32, Rob Pyott wrote:
One more issue :) When I try to send mail, I get the error "Mail
not sent. Need MAIL command."
Does this ring any bells?
In Linux, there should be a command named "mail". I don't know in what
The package is usually called mailx that provides the mail command.
On 04/03/2021 03.41, Rob Pyott wrote:
On Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 8:39:15 PM UTC-5, William Unruh wrote:
On 2021-03-03, Rob Pyott <arp...@gmail.com> wrote:Well, I didn't have sendmail! I installed it. Now Alpine tries to send, but returns the error "recipients name must be specified." Pointers...?
One more issue :) When I try to send mail, I get the error "Mail not sent. Need MAIL command."MAIL suggests an variable. Perhaps it means the sendmail command.
Look in pinerc and see what the
sendmail_path=
says. Ie, you may not have the equivalent of sendmail on your system.
Does this ring any bells?
Thank you, --Rob
You actually installed the "sendmail" package? Wow, almost nobody uses
that one. Notice that it will not work unless you configure it.
Typically people nowdays uses postfix, which includes a sendmail program which does what is expected of it without being really sendmail.
Even in
that case, postfix also needs to be configured. Depending on the distribution, it will only work for internal mail inside the LAN, not Internet.
On 04/03/2021 09.30, J.O. Aho wrote:
On 04/03/2021 02.10, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 04/03/2021 00.32, Rob Pyott wrote:
One more issue :) When I try to send mail, I get the error "Mail
not sent. Need MAIL command."
Does this ring any bells?
In Linux, there should be a command named "mail". I don't know in what
The package is usually called mailx that provides the mail command.
Yes, openSUSE replaced "mail" with the mailx implementation long ago. Initially we had mailx as an option, then as a replacement by default. I think I was one of the people suggesting this.
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-IMAP XUM1 MULTISEARCH IDLE
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On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Rob Pyott wrote:
One more issue :) When I try to send mail, I get the error "Mail not
sent. Need MAIL command."
Does this ring any bells?That is your smtp server giving you that error.
Press M S C and enable
[X] Enable Verbose SMTP Posting
then exit and save the change in configuration, and repeat the error (do
not use sendmail). After you have repeated the error, press M J D 9
and look for lines that start with the string "IMAP DEBUG" that show the transaction between Alpine and the SMTP server. That will tell you what
the error was. If you cannot distinguish the error, post the output of the relevant lines, and we will be able to tell you what the error was.
Thank you.
--
Eduardo
https://tinyurl.com/yc377wlh (web)
http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)
Yes, openSUSE replaced "mail" with the mailx implementation long ago.
Initially we had mailx as an option, then as a replacement by default.
I think I was one of the people suggesting this.
Except I do not think that his problem has anything to do with the mail
or mailx command.MAIL (all capitols) is usually some sort of environment
of local variable, not a command.
Here's the "Need MAIL Command" debug file. I took some parts out. I
think the SEND portion is after a two-line break I inserted.
Opened SMTP server "smtp.mail.me.com.akadns.net"
IMAP DEBUG 20:50:23 3/4: MAIL FROM:<arp@icloud.com>
IMAP DEBUG 20:50:23 3/4: 550 5.7.0 From address is not one of your addresses IMAP DEBUG 20:50:23 3/4: RCPT TO:<pyott@yahoo.com>
IMAP DEBUG 20:50:24 3/4: 503 5.5.1 Error: need MAIL command
IMAP DEBUG 20:50:24 3/4: RSET
IMAP DEBUG 20:50:25 3/4: 250 2.0.0 Ok
Mail not sent. Sending error: 554 One or more recipients failed
Send Error: "503 5.5.1 Error: need MAIL command"
[...]
You actually installed the "sendmail" package? Wow, almost nobody uses
that one. Notice that it will not work unless you configure it.
[...]
You are trying to send email as "a...@icloud.com" instead of py...@icloud.com. You need to change the From field. THre are several ways
to do it. Please read this excellent guide for Pine (but also valid for Alpine) by Nancy McGough.
http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/changing_from/
Thank you.
On 2021-03-04, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
Hi Carlos, hello all,
[...] You actually installed the "sendmail" package? Wow, almost nobody
uses that one. Notice that it will not work unless you configure it.
you are aware that this statement has aspects of fake news? "almost
nobody" is not proovable as false because even if I can tell that I know
some people who use it and like it one can still state that these are
the "few" people who use it.
Beside of that the distributions usually have the sendmail package that
way that I works as an MTA for the local system out of the box. This
applies to every other MTA since the distribution itself can't have informations to configure an MTA in any other way and still be reliable.
And if I remember correctly you can even start a reconfigure on sendmail
on debian to get sendmail configured for some other scenarios.
But!
There are certainly other MTAs which fit the needs of a normal stand
alone system or one which is a simple server within a local network and
not a mail server. And its totally legit to use such an MTA if this
system is not supposed to be a mail server. On the other hand: If its supposed to be a mail server sendmail is a good choice as exim is
because these are configurable for a wide range range of requirements
where postfix is a good choice for up to mid sized mail servers or ones
with more or less stringend requirements.
Any further communication about this issue either via e-mail or a
suitable newsgroup.
You actually installed the "sendmail" package? Wow, almost nobody uses
that one. Notice that it will not work unless you configure it.
[...]
I have, in .pinerc:
# List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Pine uses sendmail. smtp-server=localhost
Sysop: | Keyop |
---|---|
Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
Users: | 285 |
Nodes: | 16 (2 / 14) |
Uptime: | 64:31:11 |
Calls: | 6,488 |
Calls today: | 1 |
Files: | 12,096 |
Messages: | 5,274,794 |