From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gebser@speakeasy.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mail: Sending...failed with exit value 71 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 13:59:43 -0500 (EST) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: gebser@speakeasy.net NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070910201 15012 80.91.224.253 (8 Dec 2003 19:03:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:03:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 20:03:17 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATQf7-00009E-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 20:03:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATRbO-0000Rx-6d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:03:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATRZq-0008SO-GC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:01:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATRZJ-0008Jl-Qd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:01:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.254.0.208] (helo=mail8.speakeasy.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1ATRZJ-0008JY-Ek for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:01:21 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 3273 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2003 18:59:54 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO heidegger.mousecar.net) ([66.93.11.17]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 8 Dec 2003 18:59:54 -0000 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15062 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15062 At 23:37 (UTC-0000) on Sun, 7 Dec 2003 Glenn Morris said: = gebser@speakeasy.net wrote: = = > sendmail[4986]: hB725mJ04986: SYSERR(ken): Can't create transcript file = > ./xfhB725mJ04986: Permission denied = > = > In emacs' *Messages* buffer I'm seeing = > = > Sending... = > Sending...failed with exit value 71 = > = > How do I find out what 71 is/means? = = It's a sendmail exit code, not an Emacs exit code (after all, Emacs = has not exited). Why not search for "sendmail" + "can't create = transcript file", or somesuch? Thanks for your reply. As I said in my previous posts, I can send mail fine with pine and with xemacs. For that matter, there's no problem sending mail with the 'mail' program or with mozilla either. So the source of the problem isn't with sendmail. Yes, it may be possible that sendmail is just handing off the "exit value 71" to emacs and emacs is reporting it. If this is the case (and I'm not certain that it is), then it isn't very useful-- from sysexits.h: #define EX_OSERR 71 /* system error (e.g., can't fork) */ Moreover, the failure to create the "transcript file" by sendmail isn't a sendmail problem per se, but an indication of an emacs problem. As said, I don't get this error or any other error from sendmail when I send mail using 'mail', 'mozilla', or 'xemacs'-- just with 'emacs'. So sendmail is working fine. I haven't found any emacs configuration variable for setting the location of the transcript file and I doubt that there is one. So, it must be that there's some other configuration item in emacs which is bombing when it tries to send the mail.