The attached patch may help to solve your problem. But note that
with that patch applied, exim may interpret e-mail addresses which
begin with "-" as command line aguments.
So I'd suggest, as a real fix, you complain to the exim developpers
so they support "--" as "stop option parsing here", which is the
usual Unix convention.
On 1999-08-13 13:49:38 -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Subject: Exim vs. Mutt (Round 1)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 13:49:38 -0400 (EDT)
> Content-Type: text
> From: Fairlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hello...
>
> I installed Mutt this morning and am having a conflict with Exim, my MTA.
>
> Basically, Exim is almost a straight-forward sendmail drop-in replacement,
> compatible with almost every standard argument.
>
> When sending a message, I get the following:
>
> exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option --
> Error sending message, child exited 1 ().
>
> I looked in my .muttrc at the sendmail settings and tried half a dozen
> alterations to it, to no avail...same error.
>
> Finally I took to invoking exim by hand with the same flags as the default
> sendmail entry in .muttrc ...it works with no problem by hand. The PROBLEM
> is that mutt is somehow (someWHY) invoking sendmail/exim with the actual
> argument "--" ...And that's what exim is puking on. I can reproduce the
> exact error message above manually just feeding `exim --` at a shell prompt
> (or sendmail -- ...it's a symlink).
>
> I checked roughly through the source for sendlib.c and couldn't seem to
> find any place where it would be doing this internally. It's NOT in the
> config file I'm using...so it must be internal. Can someone please point
> out a solution, or at least where in the source this is happening?
>
> Advice, anyone?
>
> TIA...
>
> mark->
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--- /home/roessler/mutt/sendlib.c Thu Jul 29 14:10:16 1999
+++ sendlib.c Fri Aug 13 19:59:40 1999
@@ -1671,7 +1671,6 @@
args = add_option (args, &argslen, &argsmax, "-R");
args = add_option (args, &argslen, &argsmax, DsnReturn);
}
- args = add_option (args, &argslen, &argsmax, "--");
args = add_args (args, &argslen, &argsmax, to);
args = add_args (args, &argslen, &argsmax, cc);
args = add_args (args, &argslen, &argsmax, bcc);
