So, another vexing problem solved!...
Email hasn't been working from Blogdom for quite some time.
The system is configured to send me an email every time a new comment is posted. But it wasn't.
Well, today, for whatever reason, I was playing with the notify feature.
When I tried to send a manual notification from the Movable Type management page, I received an error to the effect that that path to sendmail was not valid. The precise message was:
An error occurred:
Error sending mail (You do not have a valid path to sendmail on your machine. Perhaps you should try using SMTP? ); try another MailTransfer setting?
I went and checked my mt.cfg file - it seemed fine, but I changed it to explicitly use the path to sendmail, but, no luck.
I considered trying SMTP, but I didn't want to install another module.
Long story short?
The permissions on the sendmail file were wrong. They were set to 500. Changing the permissions to 555 solved the problem.
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Posted by David at December 01, 2006 05:51 PM