I'm running Fedora-24(beta)/KDE, and sendmail/email (through KMail) is failing. When I try to send email I get the warning "Failed to transmit message", and journalctl has the entry "sendmail.service: PID file /run/sendmail.pid not readable (yet?) after start: No such file or directory".
I've checked, and sendmail.pid is in place: ================== [tim@william ~]$ sudo cat /run/sendmail.pid 2829 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h ==================
Googling for the journalctl entry, I see people have been encountering this problem for years. But I haven't seen any solution suggested. Several of the comments suggest that it is a systemd problem.
If anyone can offer advice, or even elucidation, I should be most grateful.
Ps I posted this to fedora.general, and was advised to post it to fedora-testing. When I sent it there I was advised (by Ed Greshko) to send it here, since he thought it was a KMail problem, rather than systemd.
I have no problem sending SMTP mail with Thunderbird and Evolution.
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm running Fedora-24(beta)/KDE, and sendmail/email (through KMail) is failing.
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I have no problem sending SMTP mail with Thunderbird and Evolution.
I'd recommend you setup kmail to use smtp for sending too too (instead of a local sendmail).
-- rex
Rex Dieter wrote:
I'm running Fedora-24(beta)/KDE, and sendmail/email (through KMail) is failing.
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I have no problem sending SMTP mail with Thunderbird and Evolution.
I'd recommend you setup kmail to use smtp for sending too too (instead of a local sendmail).
Thanks for the suggestion - I didn't realize that was possible, but I'll look into it shortly.
Rex Dieter wrote:
I'd recommend you setup kmail to use smtp for sending too too (instead of a local sendmail).
Thanks. That solved the problem completely. I can go back to my true love, KMail.