WTF Sunday: couldn’t send email with msmtp any more. Culprit: the lockdir
▻http://hroy.eu/posts/msmtpq-lock
Yesterday, some of the strangest thing happened. I couldn’t send email any more!
The real problem was that I got no error feedback. Actually I haven’t been able to send email since August 1, but I had not realised! I thought everything was entirely fine. Until I was online discussing some issue with Torsten and he kept waiting for my emailed answer. After two hours: still no reply from me.
So, something was wrong. But what?
First, I tried with many different SMTP servers (my own server, or FSFE’s server which both use Kolab but then I also tried with OIN’s server) and the result was always the same: I couldn’t send email. Clearly, the problem was local.
Was it mutt? I use an experimental fork of mutt, called mutt-kz… I tried to see the result of the debug file, but there was nothing really (...)