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Subject:	Interprocess communication on Windows2003 (was: mutt and ssmtp on Cygwin on Windows Server 2003 'child exited 127')
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From:	gert_de_boer AT ch DOT schindler DOT com
Date:	Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:11:04 +0200
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> You might try to strace mutt and examine the output for clues.  See "man
> strace" for details.

Hi Brian Ford,

I did what you said, but I am not a C++ or UNIX internals expert, so for me
it is difficult to interpret the output. I am just a UNIX user.

Three things I saw:

1. The different number in the error message when executed with strace:

$ echo hallo | strace -o mutt2.log mutt -s test me AT mycompany
Error sending message, child exited 128 ().
Could not send the message.

$ echo hallo | mutt -s test me AT mycompany
Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.).
Could not send the message.

2. Searching for smtp in the strace file, there is no entry for it at all.
I tried the same strace on my Windows XP PC and there I found:

<snip>
   2173  4266  266738 [main] mutt 612 spawn_guts: 612 = spawn_guts
(/usr/sbin/ssmtp, C:\cygwin\usr\sbin\ssmtp.exe -
- me AT mycompany)
   2174    79  266817 [main] mutt 612! fhandler_base::close: closing
'/tmp/mutt-SCHW1094-3976-1' handle 0x7DC
   2175    36  266853 [main] mutt 612! fhandler_base::close: closing
'/tmp/mutt-SCHW1094-3976-2' handle 0x714
   2176    32  266885 [main] mutt 612! fhandler_base::close: closing
'/tmp/mutt-SCHW1094-3976-2' handle 0x710
   2177    33  266918 [main] mutt 612! spawn_guts: spawned windows pid 1080
   2178 **********************************************
   2179 Program name: C:\cygwin\usr\sbin\ssmtp.exe (612)
   2180 App version:  1005.9, api: 0.112
   2181 DLL version:  1005.9, api: 0.112
   2182 DLL build:    2004-03-18 23:05
   2183 OS version:   Windows NT-5.1
   2184 Heap size:    402653184
   2185 Date/Time:    2004-06-01 16:40:27
   2186 **********************************************
   2187   113     340 [main] ssmtp 612 events_init:
windows_system_directory 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\', windows_system
_directory_length 20
   2188    80     420 [main] ssmtp 612 _cygwin_istext_for_stdio: fd 0:
opened as binary
   2189    29     449 [main] ssmtp 612 _cygwin_istext_for_stdio: fd 1:
opened as binary
   2190    31     480 [main] ssmtp 612 _cygwin_istext_for_stdio: fd 2:
opened as binary
   2191   697    1177 [main] ssmtp 612 parse_options: tty 1041
</snip>

So on XP it works without any problem (I also receive the mail on my remote
mailbox).

3. There is some reference to a 'windows error 487' (which seems to mean
'Attempt to access invalid address.') which does not exist on my XP PC. But
may be this only a 'follow up error'.

Sending the complete strace output to the mailling list seems too much to
me. Or should I send it to your mail address?

Regards,

Gert de Boer


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